booting F14 on 2nd drive on a Windows 7 PC

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 3:25 PM, FHDATA <fhdata at unm.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Sorry if this is a newbie question....
>
>
> A. Recently purchased PC has 2 physical drives (let's
>    call them  p0 , p1).
>
> B. p0 has windows 7 ; p1 is blank never been used.
>
> C. I used F14 32bit install media and it sees
>    p0  as /dev/sda1 and it sees p1 as /dev/adb
>
> D. Fedora 14 install completes successfully....
>    During which it was instructed to install
>    boot loader onto p1 and to leave alone /dev/sda1  ...
>
> E. BIOS knows that it needs to boot to p1
>
> F. I get a blinking prompt and nothing else....
>
>
>
> Can I have a system as stated above so I can boot
> to p1 with linux on it without p0 ever being touched
> in any way.... ?
>
> If not, why not?
>
> If yes, how?

This may or may not be your problem but depending on the BIOS grub can
get confused. Since both p0 and p1 are connected at the same time it
may see p1 as the 2nd bios drive because you probably booted from a
CD/DVD media, but when you set your BIOS to boot the 2nd drive (p1)
then for the purpose of booting it is now the 1st BIOS drive.

Boot the install media again (or other linux recovery system) and look
in /boot/grub/grub.conf for the "root" command.

If you see:
root (hd1,0)

Which means the first partition on the 2nd disk. Then you may need to
change it to:
root (hd0,0)

HTH,
Richard