Hi,

I am a newbie in Linux.

Some times ago I installed OpenSUSE 10.1 in my PC. It worked fine except the ATI Display Driver but I managed to get it over. But when I tried to install FC6 from DVD it hanged when probing. I have two HDD. One IDE and One SATA. I removed the IDE HDD. Then tried to install FC6. It worked fine and ran fine. Then I thought the trouble's over and attached the IDE HDD again. But now, FC6 cannot boot, hangs in mid boot.

Is there any way to disable my IDE HDD only for FC6 or I can run FC6 with the IDE HDD attached?
Please help.

Just so you know, I got 2 Maxtors on my Dimension 8300. 1 120GB Maxtor IDE and 1 300GB Maxtor SATA. I haven't had any problems at all with it. I know that I get ATA2 errors at boot up so there might be a problem in the new kernel. I'm just shooting in the dark with that though.

You could change the BIOS hard drive boot order so that the SATA drive precedes the IDE drive in the list.


You probably created a very simple grub problem when you reconnected the IDE drive.

The grub-speak designation for the SATA drive likely changed from (hd0) to (hd1) and the IDE drive MBR took over the bootup.


The better fix is to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and fix the root (hd0,...) problem and then reconfigure/reinstall grub.

Grub Manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/man...l#Installation

No, what it is still hd0. There is no problem with that. It starts booting but shows some IDE, CPU#1, (not taintet), blah blah, and some memory address. Then it hangs. what is the problem? PLease help.