Fedora 2 won't boot

[Kellie Blackwell]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Timothy Murphy" <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: Fedora 2 won't boot


> Kellie Blackwell wrote:
>
> > The reference to hde7 is a bit puzzling. I have two HDs. A DOS disk that
> > contains the MBR and a linux disk. I believe that the DOS disk is hdc
and
> > the linux one hdd. /proc/partitions contains this:
> >
> > 22    0       20044080 hdc
> > 22    1       20041056 hdc1
> > 22    64    156290904 hdd
> > 22    65                    1 hdd1
> > 22    69              7969 hdd5
> > 22    70          554211 hdd6
> > 22    71      76228393 hdd7
> > 7      0              73420 loop0
> >
> > So where did the hde7 reference come from?
>
> I've no idea.
> But on the face of it, the above suggests that your two disks
> are on the second IDE controller,
> with one as master and the other as slave.
> Or maybe one of these is a CD drive?

You are correct; both HDs are on the secondary IDE controller.

> I am no expert,
> but I would first check if this is so
> by running fdisk /dev/hda, fdisk /dev/hdb, etc,
> and see which disks are where.
>
> If in fact you have hdc and hdd,
> I would try connecting them physically to the other ide controller.
> Alternatively, there is probably a setting in the BIOS
> to look at the second controller when booting.

If I swap the IDE controllers, the HDs become hda and hdb as I would expect.
The boot still fails in the same place and I still get the message about
trying to mount hde7 in the anaconda.log file.

Steve.