I currently dont have any version of linux installed
on the PC. Its a new PC and has only XP on drive 0. I
created a boot dvd (from the iso downloaded) and when
I boot up the PC with the DVD, the bios recognizes
both the hard disks.
When the FC 3 installation starts, gives me an error
saying that no hard disks were found and ends up
shutting down the installation and re-booting the pc
--- Geoffrey Leach <geoff(a)direcway.com> wrote:
On 12.24 09:13, rramineni wrote:
> I am trying to install FC 3 on a dell dimension
8400
> PC. The mother board comes with 4 port SATA
interface.
> There are two hard drives currently installed, one
> with win XP and the other one is for installing
linux.
> When I boot up with windows, both the drives seem
to
> be working fine.
>
> Seems that the linux installation will not
recognize
> both of the drives.
>
> The SATA controller is Intel 82801FR SATA AHCI
> Controller
>
> Has any one had similar issues before? Any help
will
> be greatly appreciated
Short answer. I have a dual-SATA MB with XP and FC3
sharing one drive
and and EXT3 file system on the other. Both work
fine. Controller is
Promise, so its not a perfect answer.
Long answer. You need to provide more complete
information. You
presumably have XP on the first drive. You've
installed
"linux" (hopefully FC2 or FC3, or you're on the
wrong list) on drive 1,
yes? And FC boots properly? What does the boot
menu (aka the Grub
menu) show you? When you say that, "the linux
installation will not
recognize both of the drives," presumably you mean
that it won't
recognize drive 0, because if its running it must
have found the drive
its installed on. What does /etc/fstab say about
the XP drive?
Anything? If you have XP in an NTFS file system,
there should be
something like:
/dev/sda1 /dosc
ntfs
noauto,defaults 0 0
where /dev/sda1 assumes that XP is on partition 0 of
the first drive
and /dosc is a directory that you create. You'll
also need to load the
ntfs kernel module. However, as the ntfs module
does not support
writing to the files on the FS, this may be a waste
of time for you.
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