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

[Bob Blick]

Another thing I forgot to mention - some name brand
computers prefer "Cable Select" jumpering for the
drives, if your cable supports it(different color
connectors is a typical sign).

Cheers,

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).