----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Murphy" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 10:05 AM Subject: Re: Fedora 2 won't boot > Kellie Blackwell wrote: > > > The reference to hde7 is a bit puzzling. I have two HDs. A DOS disk that > > contains the MBR and a linux disk. I believe that the DOS disk is hdc and > > the linux one hdd. /proc/partitions contains this: > > > > 22 0 20044080 hdc > > 22 1 20041056 hdc1 > > 22 64 156290904 hdd > > 22 65 1 hdd1 > > 22 69 7969 hdd5 > > 22 70 554211 hdd6 > > 22 71 76228393 hdd7 > > 7 0 73420 loop0 > > > > So where did the hde7 reference come from? > > I've no idea. > But on the face of it, the above suggests that your two disks > are on the second IDE controller, > with one as master and the other as slave. > Or maybe one of these is a CD drive? You are correct; both HDs are on the secondary IDE controller. > I am no expert, > but I would first check if this is so > by running fdisk /dev/hda, fdisk /dev/hdb, etc, > and see which disks are where. > > If in fact you have hdc and hdd, > I would try connecting them physically to the other ide controller. > Alternatively, there is probably a setting in the BIOS > to look at the second controller when booting. If I swap the IDE controllers, the HDs become hda and hdb as I would expect. The boot still fails in the same place and I still get the message about trying to mount hde7 in the anaconda.log file. Steve.
