On 06/17/07 15:56:11, Karl Larsen wrote: > David Timms wrote: > > Claude Jones wrote: > >> On Sunday June 17 2007 5:38:33 pm Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > ... > >>> 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. > >> > >> Did you try all the different SATA controllers? > >> Did you carefully go through all the BIOS settings? > > BIOS settings seems the place to look. Some have a SATA emulate IDE > > mode, that might need to be flipped. Or it could be PlugNPlay os > > installed. Just try one at a time. > > > > DaveT. > > > I think your new mother board has 2 IDE plugs and in essance one > is > /devhda and the other is /devhdb and you have the one hard drive > plugged > into /dev/hdb. Indeed, there are two SATA connectors. By using the Promise display I can tell which comes first, and I've done that. I've also tried the other connector, and the result is the same. Linux, to its credit, does not care.
