On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote: > Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:17:04 -0800 > From: Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. <w...@pacifier.com> > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <plug@lists.pdxlinux.org> > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <plug@lists.pdxlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Can't see second hard drive for Linux Mint install > > David Kaplan wrote: >> I've been trying to install Linux Mint 8 on a friends Dell Dimension 8400 >> desktop. It has a 250gb hdd. as sata 0 and the new 320gb hdd is set at sata >> 1. The BIOS sees both hdds but the Mint installer only sees the first 250gb >> hdd. Someone told me to turn off the raid setting but there is not way to >> turn it off in the BIOS. The Mint Forum told me to run on the live CD: >> >> $ sudo apt-get remove dmraid >> >> sounded like a good idea, but after running it and logging back in to the >> live CD nothing happened. The installer will only see the first 250gb hdd. >> >> Any other ideas? >> > Try Slackware? ;-) > Wayne
But seriously, try booting with Knoppix or Finnix. If either of these can see the HDD, then Mint is the problem. But if they cannot, then it's a BIOS-level issue. Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
