Install problem

[Jeff Largent]

No such thing as wrong order on the ide cable, that is the reason
for ide master/slave jumpers on ide devices, the device settings
not the position on ide cable determine which device is first and
which is second.



Polashek, Matthew wrote:
> The FC is using both disks.  The installations was fine before adding the
> second disk and configuring the master/slave relationship. (though I have
> been suspecting since I have been here at work that they may be in the wrong
> order on the IDE cable)  I have a Biostar m6tba MOBO that seems to recognize
> both disks on startup when it runs a quick memory check and I have set the
> bios to automatically recognize the disks.  
> 
> I recently switched from a slower HP Vectra VL7 in which I had 2 hard drives
> installed and on which I was running fc1 with no problems.
> 
> Matthew Polashek
> Associate Editor, Silver Burdett Ginn - Music
> Scott Foresman/Pearson Education
> 299 Jefferson Road
> Parsippany, NJ 07054-0480
> office: 973.739.8709
> fax: 973.739.8098
> Matthew.Polashek at scottforesman.com
> 
> 
> 
>>----------
>>From: 	Mitch Wiedemann
>>Reply To: 	fedora-list at redhat.com
>>Sent: 	Monday, March 1, 2004 1:47 PM
>>To: 	fedora-list at redhat.com
>>Subject: 	Re: Install problem
>>
>>Is your FC install using both disks?  If you remove the second disk, 
>>does it work properly?
>>Are both disks identified correctly in the BIOS?
>>
>>Polashek, Matthew wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have been able to boot from the Fedora CD and go into rescue mode and
>>>mount the system under /mnt/sysimage.
>>>I assume pico, vi, and emacs all run though I haven't tried them.  I was
>>>assuming it was a hardware physical configuration error on my part.
>>>
>>>I can't remember off hand what partitions are where but I think /boot is
>>
>>on
>>
>>>hda and FC1 root is probably on /hdb2
>>> 
>>>
>>
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