[Re: fedora install not finding /dev/hda]

[Fred Antrobus]

I figured out the problem finally.

The drive I had was the only drive and I had it jumpered as the master .
When I removed the jumper entirely everything started working.

I don't understand but It works great now.

Fred 


"ne..." <akabi at speakeasy.net> wrote:

On Nov 19, 2003 at 16:56, Fred Antrobus in a soothing rage wrote:

>I am trying to install Fedora on a new box, with a 7vt600 gigbyte MB and a
>Western Digital HD (WD1200JB-00CR1) 120gb, 512mb RAM 
>
>1): Doing the standard graphical install with no parameters the after
>answering questions about my monitor, install tells me it can not find a
file
>system to install on.
>
>2); Doing the the graphical install using the parmeters hda='16838,16,63'
the
>installer lets me partition the drive and then when it tries to save the
boot
>loader info (grub) the computer beeps loudly and then powers down.
>
>I am pretty sure that this is a drive geometry problem
>I just don't know where to go from here.
>
>Any ideas or suggestions are welcome.
Not sure how this will help you but here goes. I have 2
WD 120GB harddrives. From my dmesg I get the following:

hda: WDC WD1200JB-00DUA3, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c034bd60, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c034be9c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: LITE-ON LTR-52246S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: DVD-ROM BDV212B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=14593/255/63,
UDMA(100)
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: host protected area => 1
hdb: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=232581/16/63,
UDMA(100)

Seems my second drive is closest yours. Make sure it is not
connected as cable select. I have mine jumpered master and
slave.

HTH
N.Emile...
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