booting F14 on 2nd drive on a Windows 7 PC

[FHDATA]

FHDATA wrote, On 05/19/2011 05:01 PM:
>
> 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,


On the bright side, toggeling "which disk is boot disk" drop-down menu
during install enabled me to boot from intended disk with further
tweaking of grub per suggestion recommend ...

After careful assessment, the dual/multi boot (unless i absolutely need 
it) is not worth the hassle. I try full hrdw install.

Thanks again for excellent tips ...



>
> 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
>