Why would you want to slave it to the secondary with a promary slot open? Is that a performance thing?
You may have the answer.
"Read further and found that LILO and GRUB will complain if /boot is not on one of the first 2 IDE devices found (counting CD drives also.)"
--Alex Janssen
Jay Crews wrote:
I am installing RedHat 8.0 on 2 new Dell 1.8 gig machines.
After installation, one boots fine from the hard drive,
but the other does not. It will only boot from the boot disk
created during installation.
The machines are identical with one exception. I added
a 60 gig hard drive to one. Since that's the only difference,
I'm focusing on that as the problem.
Here's the IDE drive setup:
Machine A (the one from the factory, unchanged)
Primary Master - 20 gig hard drive
Primary Slave - none
Secondary Master - CD Drive
Secondary Slave - none
Machine B (the one I added a second drive to.)
Primary Master - 20 gig hard drive
Primary Slave - none
Secondary Master - CD Drive
Secondary Slave - 60 gig hard drive
Machine A is fine. Machine B will not boot from the hard drive
after install.
More details on B.
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 5036316 305808 4474676 7% /
/dev/hdd1 10079324 32828 9534484 1% /backup
/dev/hda1 77750 17304 56432 24% /boot
/dev/hda6 9068616 33420 8574536 1% /home
none 127188 0 127188 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdd2 8063424 3868904 3784920 51% /usr
/dev/hda3 4032124 55508 3771788 2% /var/www
I installed the first time, and made /boot 128 megs. Thought that was
fine, but read the docs closer and it suggested 75 megs. So I went
back and re-partitioned and made /boot 75 megs (the first partition
(under 1023 cause I read that can be a problem), and primary partition.)
Read further and found that LILO and GRUB will complain if /boot
is not on one of the first 2 IDE devices found (counting CD drives also.)
Well, the second hard drive is the 3rd (hdd, right?), but /boot
is on hda (the first one, right?)
Another note. If I set BIOS to boot from the hard drive first
(diskette second), it locks up with cursor in upper left hand corner.
ie Will not fail and look at the diskette. But flip it the other way, and it'll boot right up from the diskette.
What am I missing here?
I'd really prefer not to have to re-install again, but I will. Just
don't want to go for a 3rd time with no clue.
Suggestions?
MUCH THANKS!
-- Jay Crews
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