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

[Lincoln Peters]

On 10/23/07, Dave Sisley <dsisley at sonic.net> wrote:
> 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...

Are the hard drive and CD drive on the same IDE controller?


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Lincoln Peters
<anfrind at gmail.com>