Re: Hardware problem

[Tim <ignored_mailbox yahoo com au>]

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 09:59 +0100, PFJ wrote:
> I've got an x86_64 box for my son & daughter (okay, she's 9 months
> old, but she's never to young to learn to love the penguin!). Fedora
> Core 6 test 2 installed fine on it, but on reboot, nothing on the IDE
> is recognised.
> 
> If I reset the BIOS, the drives show, but then when the machine
> normally shows what drives are on the system (this is before grub
> kicks in, but after the usual "press DEL for the BIOS"), nothing shows
> - it's like the settings less than 2 seconds before have gone.

Did GRUB properly install?  You might want to boot a rescue disc, see if
the drives are where you expect them to be (i.e. no obvious drive
fault), then re-install GRUB.

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