Hello everyone. I just installed FC2 beside WinXP without many probs. Just have a question. On reboot, FC2 powers down my hard drives. On a reboot this is not needed, just on a system halt and power down right? Is this normal or should I edit some config file?

I would be interested to know about this too.
For some reason, after I install with a custom partitioning scheme (to utilize 2 4-gig HDs) and get to the last step where I reboot, both HDs power down and NEVER START again, yielding a HD failure message during POST.

So what to do?

- RESTART: Nothing... same HD failure message.
- POWER DOWN and let it sit: Same.
- Unplug everything and reseat it all: Same.
- Change HDs from Primary to Secondary IDE: WOO-HOO... they show during POST, but nothing boots.

Now what to do?

- BOOT up my rescue disk with Partition Magic 8: Get a message indicating the drive geometry is wacked on the slave.

Hmmm... so I decided whack all the partitions and reformat both disks (they're identical 4Gb Seagate Medalist HDs) with the same number of clusters/inodes. Ok... they're both formatted with FAT32. Time to reinstall. This time forget the custom partitioning for the root filesystem, I'll just stick /home on the entire slave disk.

AND THE SAME THING HAPPENS AT REBOOT!!

Oddly enough, it worked when I did a minimal install to a single HD prior to this mess
(identical system, not the same HDs).

I've tested the HDs and both seems perfectly functional.
Is there some weird constraint on FC2 partitioning schmes that I'm unaware of?
Or is Anaconda doing something stupid because of the dual HD configuration?
If it didn't turn the HDs on during the reboot, would it work?

Well, if you formated and deleted your boot loader then that should have fixed it if anythings wrong with the HDDs. Im thinking that somethings wrong with your BIOS, or your motherboard. I know of no way to varify this other than switch out, but good luck whatever you do.