October 10, 2005 10:22 PM

two suggestions... 1) try doing a 'search' for /dev/hdc - this question has been asked, discussed and answered, many many times... 2) double-check your instructions - it sounds like you don't have things connected properly...

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October 10, 2005 11:23 PM

matt said:

yeah i figured out that I had the wrong ides connected. Had to swap em. I got it working perfectly. I just have one more question, when it was formating the hard drive, it said severely broken bios (something about linux) "going to wing it", just curious.

That's a new one...

Definitely PC related; how old is the PC you are using?

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InstantCake Instructions and Release Notes,
Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
Official PTVnet Discussion Thread

October 12, 2005 10:06 AM

Those crazy Dell bios programmers! ;)

Make sure that, if you have the option in the bios, you make the CDROM drive bootable. Also, something I have seen that worked on this exact error message... make the floppy the first boot device, THEN the CDROM, then the HDD. This seems to have made a difference on some machines even without booting to a floppy, it still wanted to look for a floppy drive first for some reason.

October 12, 2005 5:23 PM

No... no floppy, don't put in the boot order. Bios will look for it and, if it isn't there, it will probably tell you so!

Not sure what to tell you. This wasn't a fix-all, just a FYI. The 8200 is pretty new, correct? I baked my drive on an Optiplex GX260 which is 2-3 years old and had no problems.

October 12, 2005 5:34 PM

You may want to dig around on the Dell Support site and see if you can find the most up to date bios for your model... then try to bake the drive again and see what happens.