[NTLUG:Discuss] install problems on system with multiple IDE drives

[Paul Drew]

Howdy Fred,
As you can see I am not in the office today, but have you went out to the 
Dell site, and gotten the newest bios, and updated it? Those Dell Bios's get 
tricky as hell, and I infact had to fight with a new server the other day. I 
will be happy to look at it tomorow if you want. :) Check the bios versions, 
and such, and try that. I will talk to you later. Good Luck

Paul Drew


>From: fredjame <fredjame at concentric.net>
>Reply-To: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
>To: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
>Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] install problems on system with multiple IDE 
>drives
>Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 11:22:39 -0500
>
>This one is new to me, and I am stumped
>Dell Dimension XPF T700r is the original box, though this is the nth 
>regeneration of same
>It is a PIII 700Mhz, with 448 MB memory, and three Maxtor hard drives 
>installed
>On the primary IDE (ATA 66) on the mother board: the primary is a 10GB 
>5T060H6, and the secondary is a 60GB 51054H2 - cable is 80 wire.
>On the primary (#1) connector an ATA 133 IDE card, the primary is a 200GB 
>LTN301 - no secondary here - cable is 80 wire.
>They were installed to be that way, and the BIOS seems them that way, 
>however, when installing Linux (Mandrake 9.1), they are seen during 
>partitioning as
>- hda - 55GB
>- hdb - 10GB
>- hde - 189GB
>and I get a curious set of results when I complete the install, and the 
>system tries to reboot for the first time.  No matter where I put the / and 
>/boot partitions, the bootloader cannot seem to find a system to boot.  
>Also, (a) I select LILO for a bootloader and the boot time screen stop 
>after displaying "Grub Loading stage 2.."; (b) I select Grub for a 
>bootloader and the boot time screen stops after displaying "LI" or "LILO"
>
>Any suggestions or insight would be most welcome and appreciated.
>
>--
>...small is beautiful.
>
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