I figured out the problem finally. The drive I had was the only drive and I had it jumpered as the master . When I removed the jumper entirely everything started working. I don't understand but It works great now. Fred "ne..." <akabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: On Nov 19, 2003 at 16:56, Fred Antrobus in a soothing rage wrote: >I am trying to install Fedora on a new box, with a 7vt600 gigbyte MB and a >Western Digital HD (WD1200JB-00CR1) 120gb, 512mb RAM > >1): Doing the standard graphical install with no parameters the after >answering questions about my monitor, install tells me it can not find a file >system to install on. > >2); Doing the the graphical install using the parmeters hda='16838,16,63' the >installer lets me partition the drive and then when it tries to save the boot >loader info (grub) the computer beeps loudly and then powers down. > >I am pretty sure that this is a drive geometry problem >I just don't know where to go from here. > >Any ideas or suggestions are welcome. Not sure how this will help you but here goes. I have 2 WD 120GB harddrives. From my dmesg I get the following: hda: WDC WD1200JB-00DUA3, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive blk: queue c034bd60, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) blk: queue c034be9c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: LITE-ON LTR-52246S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: DVD-ROM BDV212B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: host protected area => 1 hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=14593/255/63, UDMA(100) hdb: attached ide-disk driver. hdb: host protected area => 1 hdb: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=232581/16/63, UDMA(100) Seems my second drive is closest yours. Make sure it is not connected as cable select. I have mine jumpered master and slave. HTH N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 Good news from afar can bring you a welcome visitor. 22:45:41 up 3 days, 8:54, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list ================================================== Fred Antrobus fredantrobus@xxxxxxx
