"...In the end it was painfully simple, but I resisted
it (and several other suggestions) because it struck me as a bridge
too far for our Harry. My sense is that he's averse to opening his
case and mucking about with hardware -- hence my bias towards using
only CMOS setup and the tools supplied with the distro.
But at the same time, I couldn't let some obscure gremlin thwart
me. No, I'd persist until I'd made two clean, trouble-free
installations in a row. And if that meant breaking character, so be
it.
It was a simple thing, but let's let Frazier tell it in his own
words: 'I know this is probably the quarter millionth tip you have
received on this subject, but have you tried switching the jumpers
on your drives from cable select (the Dell default) to Master and
Slave accordingly?'"
