RE: HD not working!!

[Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu uchicago edu>]

On 22-Jul-97 Dileep Agrawal wrote:
>>>I installed RedHat Linux 4.0 on a hard drive.  Now, when I try to install
>>>Windows NT on it, I get a stream of characters before booting from the
>>>drive.  I have already tried replacing the Master boot record, partition
>>>table etc. with another copy.  But, the problem is still there?   How can I
>>>use the hard drive again?
>>
>>You want to replace Linux with NT? :-[   I suggest you post your query to a
>>Windows NT list.
>
>I assure you of my loyalty to the Linux environment :)   It is just that
>the hard drive I was using was IDE, which I replaced with a SCSI drive.
>Now, rather than throw away the old IDE drive, I decided to try out NT.  I
>would have queried an NT list, but the problem is not limited to installing
>NT.

I see from your address that you are from Nepal, a beautiful country I have
visited several times. It seems that the problem comes from having both an IDE
drive and a SCSI drive on the same system. I think is has something to do with
which drive is bootable, but... I would like to help you, but I can't remember
what the solution was, but it has come up several times on this list. Check the
archives at www.redhat.com/mailing-lists//archives/redhat-install-list/
or perhaps someone else can help.
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