Re: Newbie: Fedora Core 4 Dual hard drive boot problems


"SBeik" <SimonBeik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have two h drives:

First is configured on IDE! i/f as primary and has three partitions; on
which win2000 resides.
IDE1 secondary is not configured.

My second drive is configured on IDE2 primary and My CD/DVD drive is on
IDE2 secondary.

So if I understand your question, I do not have a hdb, instead I have
hda1, hda2 and hda3.

However, I am quite carefull not to allow fedora access my first drive,
since I have about 6 years worth of windows data on it.

On one occasion, that I allowed it to modify hd1's mbr.....it corrupted
it and I had to fixmbr thru windows.

Also, on one previous occasion, I was able to somehow install Fedora
without grub on hdc and were able to load fedora by changing the BIOS
load device to hd0 to boot windows and hd1 to boot fedora. I lost that
configuration and since have not been able to reproduce it.

Ok so this is what your configuration should look like if you have 3
partitions on your hda . from the info you have supplied.
( this is how it really should be configured for 3 partitions )


hda ( IDE Primary - Master )
hda1 ----------> Win2000 ( active partition to boot from )
hda2-----------> Extended partition
hda3 ----------> drive 1 in extended partition
hda4 ---------> drive 2 in extended partition

hdb ( IDE Secondary - Master )
not configured

CD/DVD drive (Secondary - Slave )


All you really need to do is install FC4 on hdb in the configuration of
/boot 100 Mb ( hdb1 )
/swap 512 Mb (hdb2)
/ <balance of hdb> (hdb3)

)


When you install FC4 , use Grub to install the bootloader on the first drive
(hda) and everything should work OK.

You should be able to reconfigure your partitions and install FC4 in the
above configuration without touching any of the data on your Win2000
partition.

Once you install FC4 , then on first boot up , press [Escape] to get to the
Grub boot menu and then boot into FC4.
Once you are in FC4 , you will have to edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file
and remove the command of "hiddenmenu" by adding a comment in front of the
statement , like :
# hiddenmenu
This will allow you to have access to the Grub boot menu on boot up.

You could install FC4 on hda3 or hda4 , but it could get messy and it would
be better to have FC4 on it's own HDD.

I have a similar configuration as above with WinXP and FC5 , I have only 2
partitions on hda and the same type of partitions on hdb , the only
difference I have is that I have hda and hdb on the primary IDE channel one
as a master ( hda ) and the other a slave (hdb ).

It if is at all possible , you should reconfigure your drives on the IDE
channels like so :

hda ------> Primary - Master ( existing )
hdb -------> Primary - Slave

CD/DVD ---------> Secondary - Master

If you can't change any of your system around , then it shouldn't worry you
too much , it will still work and you won't notice that much difference.




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