booting F14 on 2nd drive on a Windows 7 PC

[FHDATA]

All,

Very valid and interesting points. I will have to try
a few of these which takes time. I will post a conclusion/summary.

Thanks,

Richard Shaw wrote, On 05/19/2011 02:38 PM:
> 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