BIOS doesn't see hard drive with Fedora 16, may it be an install issue?

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Fri Dec 23 20:36:41 UTC 2011


On 12/23/2011 09:04 AM, M. Fioretti wrote:
> I am already investigating on the BIOS side, ie checking the docs and
> so on. My question here is only if there may be anything in how F16
> was installed (using or not the MBR for grub, choices of partitions
> etc) that may cause a problem like this, and if yes how to fix it.

No.  What you're looking at is something that's working before the boot 
process even starts or grub gets loaded.  There's something wrong with 
your computer, and Linux has nothing to do with it.


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