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Re: Installation problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (drink)
Wed Nov 27 17:49:41 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 17:40:49 -0500
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AXTRINH@BIIVAX.DP.BECKMAN.COM wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install the latest Redhat release on my system which consists
> of an Endeavor motherboard, a Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM 3401, 2 EIDE disks,
> 1 SCSI disk, and Tyan Yorktown SCSI adapter. The motherboard supports
> 2 EIDE interfaces; each of which has an 1Gig EIDE disk. I installed
> DOS/Win, OS2 on the disk mounted on the primary EIDE interface. The
> EIDE on the secondary interface is devoted to Linux. At the end of
> the installation it claims it cannot write to the MBR or the first
> sector of boot partition. Do you have any ideas?
>
Is the Linux disk hda, hdb, hdc, or hdd? To put it another way: Is
Linux on the Primary IDE controller? If it's on the secondary
controller (hdc, hdd) you can't boot off it. It's part of some
standard, you can only boot off the Primary conroller (although you
should be able to boot off the Primary Master OR Primary Slave drives,
some BIOS won't let you though). Hope that helps!
Craig
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