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@xxxxxxx> 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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
