Geoffrey Leach <geoff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 06/17/07 15:06:10, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Sunday June 17 2007 5:38:33 pm Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > Sorry.
> >
> > I ask this because the system in question is dual-boot FC6, and
> hence
> > there might be someone who's experienced the same problem.
> >
> > Otherwise, please accept my apologies.
> >
> > A fully functional dual-boot FC6/Windoze XP system had its MB
> replaced.
> > On being returned (and the disk reinstalled) it booted FC6 just
> fine,
> > but XP could not find the disk. Not that it just would not boot,
> but
> > that under no circumstances (CD boot, ASR boot, normal boot) could
> XP
> > find the disk. The disk partitions are: 1 - NTSF, 2 - /boot, 3 - /.
> > Any suggestions as to what might be missing? FWIW, the disk is
> SATA,
> > and, yes, the driver disk was provided at the appropriate time.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Did you try all the different SATA controllers?
> Did you carefully go through all the BIOS settings?
Only on SATA controller -- Promise 378 chip on the MB. I should also
mention that although the Promise chip supports RAID, that feature is
not in use. There is only one SATA drive.
I did indeed go through the BIOS settings, which is a good point as
along with the new MB there was a new version on the Phoenix Server
BIOS. And there was an enable-SATA setting. With that disabled, GRUB is
done discovered, as you would expect.
I had something like that come up when I wiped Vista off my wife's
laptop and regressed it back to XP. When I first booted the system with
the XP install disk, the XP installer couldn't find the hard disk. I
poked around on Google and the key seems to be a BIOS setting. Some
systems Vista have the disk set up to emulate RAID to improve
performance, on her system it was some sort of SATA emulation. I turned
it off and then XP found the disk. Could be the new mother board
defaults to what works best for Vista.
Cheers,
Dave
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