Install problem

[Polashek, Matthew]

Ok.. thanks.  I am starting to figure that out.  My vectra had a cable
select IDE cable, hence my confusion.

So this is definitely a fedora/grub/installation problem then.

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: 	Jeff Largent
> Reply To: 	fedora-list at redhat.com
> Sent: 	Monday, March 1, 2004 2:12 PM
> To: 	fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: 	Re: Install problem
> 
> 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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