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

[Troy Arnold]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:32:51AM -0700, Dave Sisley 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...

Did you try and have the BIOS auto detect the drives?

If none of the suggestions to date work, try resetting BIOS defaults.
If that doesn't work, remove the BIOS battery and fling some chicken blood
about the room.

You can always bring it to an installfest; I hear the coordinator is a very
helpful guy ;-)


-t