On Friday 10 February 2006 18:16, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > Hmm - when I'm sure that I can't get anything else useful off it, I'll > > try that. I've got FC4 installing at the moment on the new drive. I > > installed the old one as slave, but the FC4 installer tells me that it > > can't read the partition table. That's odd, because knoppix could read > > it. > > > > Anne > > Do you have the drive defined in the BIOS that same way as when it > was the master drive? Is it an older machine that required you to > install some software on the drive to get it to work? > Well, after a little experimentation I have a result - though I don't really know why. The hda drive says, on its label, that as a standalone drive you should use no jumpers. As a master with a slave, it needs a jumper on the centre two pins. That's the way I had set it up when it tried to boot Mandriva. I disconnected hdb, leaving hda untouched, and got no further than the motherboard splash screen. I re-connected it, but took off the jumper - 'standalone', remember - and now FC boots, and 'fdisk -l' can list the partitions on hdb! I have one other drive that I need to check out before putting this one back and adding permanent additions to fstab. Fingers crossed ;-) Anne
