C4 Install Problems - Part2

[Albert A. Hocking III]

Flipping them in the bios are not problem........

I never thought though, that I would have had to tell it to install because
I saw that screen and it had (don't quote me on this exactly)

Checked hdd/user/ - Default
Uncheck hda/winnt/

Everything had looked good to me because from my past experience, if I left
my hands off that option, it would just do it by default.....

That's why I was a little thrown......

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Stevens" <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: C4 Install Problems - Part2


> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 11:40 -0800, Albert A. Hocking III wrote:
> > I was hoping that I would just be able to install after the last time
> > you guys tried to help but I'm witnessing things that I've never seen
> > before and I quite frankly don't even know how to research to find the
> > answer because I don't understand what is going on......
> >
> > I have tried to install Core 4 five times now and frankly, I'm getting
> > nowhere....The first time was completely my fault because I found out
> > that the second disk I had burned was bad.....so there are four
> > installs where the results were parallel....
> >
> > After the bad installation, I proceeded to download and make a new
> > disk to replace the second which was bad. After doing so, I started
> > setup again and I assigned the drives to automatically partition like
> > this:
> >
> > Samsung 40 (Left alone) hda (IDE)
> > IDE CDROM
> > Maxtor 160 gig (Left alone) hdc (RAID)
> > Maxtor 60 gig (Set for new partition) hdd (RAID)
> >
> > Well, the first time I tried to load I set the language, network and
> > then the partition and the screen after where you review all of the
> > partitions (because I wasn't using Disk Druid) there was an anaconda
> > error.  The first time I didn't do anything about it and told it to
> > ignore and it rebooted the system......The second time I tried to
> > install, it went through all 5 disks with no problem........But when I
> > tried to boot........NO GRUB, it just went straight through to
> > windows.....
> >
> > Well, I gave it a night because it had been a long day and I tackled
> > it in the morning.......So the first thing that I did was popped a
> > windows 98 disk in and cleaned the partitions off the designated Linux
> > drives to get a fresh install......then before I rebooted I wiped the
> > MBR encase there was anything weird going on there.......then I
> > started setup again........
> >
> > Well, this time, it was more of the same........I loaded it the first
> > time and after the review of the drives after the Linux drive was
> > designated, anaconda gave an error again........this time, I saved it
> > (all 18 pages of it)......then the system rebooted and I tried to
> > install again........and once again it took the installation and then
> > I rebooted and the same thing happened.....it went straight to
> > windows.....
> >
> > Well, out of a little frustration, and a little desperation I went to
> > the bios......once there I moved the Linux drive to the first drive to
> > be loaded......Once I powered down and tried to boot from the drive I
> > got an "Error Loading Operating System"....
>
> When you install, you must tell anaconda to put grub in the MBR of
> /dev/hda.  You obviously haven't been doing that since Windows booted.
>
> Remember, for grub to take over the boot process, it must be in the MBR
> of the first disk your BIOS sees.
>
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