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I may be wrong, but I think that you can only have your root partition
on either hda or hdb

I seem to remember having a similar problem with RH5.2 some time ago
when I tried to install on hdc, but their installer wouldn't let me put
the root partition on hdc

"FARFROMN�RMAL" wrote:
> 
> I have a Quantium Fireball on an ATA66 controller and Phatlinux 3.3.
> 
> On boot Phatlinux detects my drives in this order:
> hdc: CD-ROM
> hdd: CD-RW
> hde: HDD
> Then hangs...
> 
> I have tried changing the boot order in my BIOS, but that changes nothing. I
> have disconnected my CD drives and it doesn't change where the hard drive is
> placed.
> 
>  But I am new to linux and
> don't know anything really.
> 
> HELP!

I know it needs to be on hda, and I am trying to change it so it is, that's
what I need help with.

Also, I tried taking my hard drive off my controller card and hooking it
right to the motherboard's IDE and Linux boots fine and the harddrive is
shows as hda.

But what do I do to fix Linux so I can use the card, its getting to be a
real pain in the ass switching the cable everytime I want to boot Linux.


"Neil Shaw" <N.R.M.Shaw@durham.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:3AA75F7B.E6B37B0@durham.ac.uk...
> I may be wrong, but I think that you can only have your root partition
> on either hda or hdb
>
> I seem to remember having a similar problem with RH5.2 some time ago
> when I tried to install on hdc, but their installer wouldn't let me put
> the root partition on hdc
>
> "FARFROMN�RMAL" wrote:
> >
> > I have a Quantium Fireball on an ATA66 controller and Phatlinux 3.3.
> >
> > On boot Phatlinux detects my drives in this order:
> > hdc: CD-ROM
> > hdd: CD-RW
> > hde: HDD
> > Then hangs...
> >
> > I have tried changing the boot order in my BIOS, but that changes
nothing. I
> > have disconnected my CD drives and it doesn't change where the hard
drive is
> > placed.
> >
> >  But I am new to linux and
> > don't know anything really.
> >
> > HELP!

Forgive me if im wrong, but cant you just change the jumper settings on the
back of the hdd, and/or make shure the ide cable is in the correct cabel 2
the IDE?
"FARFROMN�RMAL" <fuel@zxmailREMOVETOMAIL.com> wrote in message
news:988oci0se8@enews3.newsguy.com...
> I know it needs to be on hda, and I am trying to change it so it is,
that's
> what I need help with.
>
> Also, I tried taking my hard drive off my controller card and hooking it
> right to the motherboard's IDE and Linux boots fine and the harddrive is
> shows as hda.
>
> But what do I do to fix Linux so I can use the card, its getting to be a
> real pain in the ass switching the cable everytime I want to boot Linux.
>
>
> "Neil Shaw" <N.R.M.Shaw@durham.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:3AA75F7B.E6B37B0@durham.ac.uk...
> > I may be wrong, but I think that you can only have your root partition
> > on either hda or hdb
> >
> > I seem to remember having a similar problem with RH5.2 some time ago
> > when I tried to install on hdc, but their installer wouldn't let me put
> > the root partition on hdc
> >
> > "FARFROMN�RMAL" wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a Quantium Fireball on an ATA66 controller and Phatlinux 3.3.
> > >
> > > On boot Phatlinux detects my drives in this order:
> > > hdc: CD-ROM
> > > hdd: CD-RW
> > > hde: HDD
> > > Then hangs...
> > >
> > > I have tried changing the boot order in my BIOS, but that changes
> nothing. I
> > > have disconnected my CD drives and it doesn't change where the hard
> drive is
> > > placed.
> > >
> > >  But I am new to linux and
> > > don't know anything really.
> > >
> > > HELP!
>
>

This drive also has Win98se on it and I've gotten into a lot of trouble with
drive settings and Windowz.

"Mortimer" <xmort@ananzi.co.za> wrote in message
news:98d601$4ip$1@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net...
> Forgive me if im wrong, but cant you just change the jumper settings on
the
> back of the hdd, and/or make shure the ide cable is in the correct cabel 2
> the IDE?
> "FARFROMN�RMAL" <fuel@zxmailREMOVETOMAIL.com> wrote in message
> news:988oci0se8@enews3.newsguy.com...
> > I know it needs to be on hda, and I am trying to change it so it is,
> that's
> > what I need help with.
> >
> > Also, I tried taking my hard drive off my controller card and hooking it
> > right to the motherboard's IDE and Linux boots fine and the harddrive is
> > shows as hda.
> >
> > But what do I do to fix Linux so I can use the card, its getting to be a
> > real pain in the ass switching the cable everytime I want to boot Linux.
> >
> >
> > "Neil Shaw" <N.R.M.Shaw@durham.ac.uk> wrote in message
> > news:3AA75F7B.E6B37B0@durham.ac.uk...
> > > I may be wrong, but I think that you can only have your root partition
> > > on either hda or hdb
> > >
> > > I seem to remember having a similar problem with RH5.2 some time ago
> > > when I tried to install on hdc, but their installer wouldn't let me
put
> > > the root partition on hdc
> > >
> > > "FARFROMN�RMAL" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have a Quantium Fireball on an ATA66 controller and Phatlinux 3.3.
> > > >
> > > > On boot Phatlinux detects my drives in this order:
> > > > hdc: CD-ROM
> > > > hdd: CD-RW
> > > > hde: HDD
> > > > Then hangs...
> > > >
> > > > I have tried changing the boot order in my BIOS, but that changes
> > nothing. I
> > > > have disconnected my CD drives and it doesn't change where the hard
> > drive is
> > > > placed.
> > > >
> > > >  But I am new to linux and
> > > > don't know anything really.
> > > >
> > > > HELP!
> >
> >
>
>

On Thu, 08 Mar 2001 10:31:23 +0000, Neil Shaw
<N.R.M.Shaw@durham.ac.uk> wrote:

>> hdc: CD-ROM
>> hdd: CD-RW
>> hde: HDD

I saw something like this at a friend's computer (he could afford some
dual-CPU-high-value-motherboard).
The problem/case was that his cd-reader and toaster are at IDE
Secondary, taking hdc and hdd, and then, his harddisks at
UltraDMA-Controller were detected as hde/hdf. This seems to be because
Linux has hda/b for the ide0, ide1->c/d  ....
And it seems to "see" the usual IDE before the UDMA66 controller.

As it says in SuSE-Linux 7.1 manual
"what does that *login:* error message mean", I think it's not that
place at which boot process hangs :-) but will be somewhere near the
place where it tries to mount your root filesystem !? In this case I
think you misconfigured your lilo/chos/syslinux/bootmanager to watch
for your root partition at /dev/hda1 or so, and that doesnt work. So
try to use some emergency boot feature perhaps supplied with your
distribution, and try to specify hdex instead of hdax as boot
partition. Or install LOADLIN (dos-based linux-booter). Available in
the net. With loadlin of course your problem is to get your kernel
from somewhere, but with MY distrib, it is somewhere on the DVD (or
CDROM resp.) and so I can use it from there.

Have a lot of fun....

Anselm