On 06/17/07 16:28:10, David G. Miller wrote: > 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. Problem resolved. Turns out that the new MB had a new version of the Promise SATA controller, which required a new driver. Now I need to figure out how to get the driver onto the disk. Sigh! Many thanks to all who replied.
