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@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
