[NBLUG/talk] Can't boot from Hard Drive

Bob Blick bbblick at sbcglobal.net
Tue Oct 23 11:11:03 PDT 2007


Hi Dave,

"Master with slave present" requires the slave be on
the same cable.

If your CD is on another cable you should jumper the
hard drive as "single drive".

Cheerful regards,

Bob


--- Dave Sisley <dsisley at sonic.net> wrote:

> Hey:
> 
> I have a Dell Dimension 2350 that had what looked
> like a Hard Drive 
> failure.  I put in a different (used) drive and
> installed FC4 on that.  
> When I try to boot, the machine acts as though there
> is no hard drive 
> installed.  Poking around the bios boot options, I
> don't see the drive.  
> The drive is jumpered to be a master with slave
> present (CD).
> 
> What's funny is that booting from knoppix or from
> the FC4 install disk - 
> meaning booting from CD - works fine.  What's more,
> the CD-based OS can 
> see the hard drive.  Knoppix saw it, and FC4
> obviously saw & wrote to 
> it.  That means the disk is okay, and that there's
> nothing wrong with 
> the data cable or something...
> 
> Any ideas?  Thanks so much!
> 
> -dave.
> 
> -- 
> Dave Sisley
> dsisley at sonic.net
> roth-sisley.net
> 
> 
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