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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page ? Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com
