Problem Installing Lixux on second drive

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 25.07.2004 schrieb aprax at acsalaska.net um 13:01:

> I attempted to install Linux as dual-boot with my Windows 2000 Professional operating
> system. I have installed the i386 version of Linux onto one of two of my hard drives.  One
> hard drive is a Maxtor 80 GB (that I have Windows 2000 installed on) and the other is a
> Maxtor 40 GB (the one I that installed Linux on).  My motherboard is a KR7A-RAID.  The
> two hard drives are mounted on the IDE3 controller as a span array configured as "just
> a bunch of disks."  After I completed the installation of Linux on my computer, I removed
> the installation CD and my computer rebooted and came up with the error message <tt>
> GRUB hard disk error</tt>.  I don't see a way of circumventing this error and simply
> booting to Windows 2000.  What are my options?  And detailed instructions if possible
> please, as I'm pretty much a newbie to the Linux operating system.

> Adam prax

Are you sure the Fedora installer saw your 2 drives as 1? As you
describe under Windows[tm] you see them boot as a bunch of disks, so in
total 120 GB of diskspace. I doubt that this was the case during Fedora
installation, because this thing called RAID controller on your board is
nothing such without support by a driver.

What to do depends what you did during install. Boot into rescue mode
like Timothy suggested and check your partitioning by running "fdisk
-l". That will print your out the partition scheme of both drives.

Alexander

P.S. Please post in future only plain text mails to this list, no html
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