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

[E Frank Ball III]

Dave,

Try swapping the cables from the drive and the CD.  See if it boots that
way.

What device was the hd anyway?  (/dev/hda, /dev/hdc)?

   E Frank Ball                efball at efball.com

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:55:07AM -0700, Dave Sisley wrote:
> Lincoln:
>
> I don't think so (I'm a bit of an ignoramus when it comes to hardware):  
> The HD is cabled to the motherboard with its own cable, and the CD is 
> plugged into another slot on the motherboard.
>
> -dave.
>
> Lincoln Peters wrote:
>> 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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