PC bios confused in which harddrive to boot fedora OS: Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media!

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Subject: PC bios confused in which harddrive to boot fedora OS: Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media!
From: "Excalibur Xcalibur" <excalibur.xcalibur@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:58:40 -0400
Reply-to: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi All,
This is a rather unusual situation. I have a server running fedora linux OS with a 650 Gb Seagate Barracuda Harddrive. Now I wanted to mirror the server with an identical harddrive. When I plugged my new harddrive in, I got the message:

"Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media"

It seems that because it's an identical harddrive (with not OS though), the PC doesn't *see* which one is the correct boot harddrive. Weird! If a plug a different harddisk than the one with the linux OS, they system boots up. Any clues on how to fix this problem?

--
Peter "Excalibur"

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