Cannot boot from SATA drive
Jay Cliburn
jacliburn at bellsouth.net
Fri Jul 7 02:32:33 UTC 2006
I installed a SATA drive (no RAID, just a single SATA drive) and
installed FC6T1 on it tonight, but my system (Abit AV8) won't boot from
it. I can configure BIOS to see the drive and elevate its priority in
the boot order, but I get nothing on boot. At the point I should see
the "grub loading" message, the boot process just hangs with no grub
message displayed. It's as if there's no master boot record.
I have a single IDE drive (hda) and, now, the single SATA drive (sda)
installed in the system. For the FC6T1 install, I copied the DVD iso
image onto hda (at /tmp/fc6, to be precise) and installed using the
linux askmethod/hard drive procedure. Seemed to install fine.
I can still boot from the IDE drive (FC5) after rearranging the boot
device order in BIOS, and from FC5 I can mount the sda1 (/boot) and sda2
(/) partitions. All the FC6 stuff is present and accounted for in those
partitions.
I've tried disabling hda altogether in BIOS, but it didn't help -- still
no boot from the SATA drive.
Is there a way to determine if a MBR is present on the SATA drive? Are
there any other things I should try?
Thanks,
Jay
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