Re: 8.0 will not boot from hard drive after install

[Alex <ajx ourwoods org>]

I stopped trying to be a hardware expert a long time ago and just follow 
installation instructions. ;-)  You know, if all else fails ...   I find 
an awful lot of computer errors in my life are due to my own 
misunderstanding of or lack of reading the instructions.

I was only following the clue you provided where your said you had read 
that Lilo and Grub may complain if the boot drives are not on the 
primary controller. Seemed like a logical lead.

Seems that if it works now, it shold keep working. Have faith.

Glad it worked.

Alex


Jay Crews wrote:

> Alex writes....
>  
>
> > The only thing I would have done different would be to put the 60G on 
> > the primary slave.
> > Why would you want to slave it to the secondary with a promary slot 
> > open? Is that a performance thing?
> >
> >    
>
> Well.....I messed around with this and got it to work, but I
> now have a question about the consequences of HOW I got it to work.
>
> I moved hdd (secondary slave) to hdb (primary slave.)
> That gives me:
> Primary Master - 20 gig hard drive
> Primary Slave - 60 gig hard drive
> Secondary Master - CD Drive
> Secondary Slave - none
>
> Note:  I did NOT re-install anything.  Just moved the drive.
>
> All works.  But the question is, when I initially installed, hhd existed and
> I installed /usr and backup partition /backup on it.
> Now, "df" shows that all references to hdd are now hdb, but can I
> expect other side effects down the road?
> Or more specific, are there any places where hdd is written, which
> when it looks for it, it's no longer there?
>
> Thanks
>
> -- Jay Crews
> jpc jaycrews com
>
>
>
>  
>
> > --Alex Janssen
> >
> > Jay Crews wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > I am installing RedHat 8.0 on 2 new Dell 1.8 gig machines.
> > > After installation, one boots fine from the hard drive,
> > > but the other does not.  It will only boot from the boot disk
> > > created during installation.
> > >
> > > The machines are identical with one exception.  I added
> > > a 60 gig hard drive to one.  Since that's the only difference,
> > > I'm focusing on that as the problem.
> > >
> > > Here's the IDE drive setup:
> > >
> > > Machine A (the one from the factory, unchanged)
> > > Primary Master - 20 gig hard drive
> > > Primary Slave - none
> > > Secondary Master - CD Drive
> > > Secondary Slave - none
> > >
> > > Machine B (the one I added a second drive to.)
> > > Primary Master - 20 gig hard drive
> > > Primary Slave - none
> > > Secondary Master - CD Drive
> > > Secondary Slave - 60 gig hard drive
> > >
> > >
> > > Machine A is fine.  Machine B will not boot from the hard drive
> > > after install.
> > >
> > > More details on B.
> > >
> > > Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > > /dev/hda2              5036316    305808   4474676   7% /
> > > /dev/hdd1             10079324     32828   9534484   1% /backup
> > > /dev/hda1                77750     17304     56432  24% /boot
> > > /dev/hda6              9068616     33420   8574536   1% /home
> > > none                    127188         0    127188   0% /dev/shm
> > > /dev/hdd2              8063424   3868904   3784920  51% /usr
> > > /dev/hda3              4032124     55508   3771788   2% /var/www
> > >
> > >
> > > I installed the first time, and made /boot 128 megs.  Thought that was
> > > fine, but read the docs closer and it suggested 75 megs.  So I went
> > > back and re-partitioned and made /boot 75 megs (the first partition
> > > (under 1023 cause I read that can be a problem), and primary partition.)
> > > Read further and found that LILO and GRUB will complain if /boot
> > > is not on one of the first 2 IDE devices found (counting CD drives also.)
> > > Well, the second hard drive is the 3rd (hdd, right?), but /boot
> > > is on hda (the first one, right?)
> > >
> > > Another note.  If I set BIOS to boot from the hard drive first
> > > (diskette second), it locks up with cursor in upper left hand corner.
> > > ie Will not fail and look at the diskette.  But flip it the other 
> > > way, and it'll boot right up from the diskette.
> > >
> > > What am I missing here?
> > >
> > > I'd really prefer not to have to re-install again, but I will.  Just
> > > don't want to go for a 3rd time with no clue.
> > >
> > > Suggestions?
> > >
> > > MUCH THANKS!
> > >
> > > -- Jay Crews
> > > jpc jaycrews com
> > >
> > >
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