On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 02:55:05PM -0700, Reg Clemens wrote: > Im back to trying to install Fedora on a machine with an Intel 945 > motherboard. This is a new motherboard (chipset), and anything > less than FC4 doesnt know about the SATA controller on this board. > > Now I get a clean install, but when I try to boot, there doesnt > seem to be a boot block (I get the message 'insert a boot disk') > > So, is this a known problem? FC4 seems to be able to write to this > disk, and fdisk was able to format it, is there a possibility that > FC4 cant write a (usable) boot block? > > Puzzled, and not sure what to try next (OK I can add a non-SATA disk > but that seems like a waste) We have several machines with SATA drives and FC4 installed. -- ======================================================================= Who are you? ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484