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Eric, I don't know whether it really matters.  But I wouldn't be
surprised if your find your cdrom drive as a slave on your hda drive
cable.  You could go into bios at startup and look, just for fun.
Like I said, I don't think it matters.  Good luck -- d

Eric Maes <fr013269@worldonline.be> writes:

> Douglas S. Oliver wrote:
> > 
> > Eric, actually, my cdrom drive is hdc.  This leads me to think that
> > your hard drive is being seen as something other than a dos d: drive.
> > D: here to refer to an actual physical drive as opposed to a virtual drive.
> > Do you have your two drives as primary and slave on one cable?  Or are
> > you using two different cables?  I drive both hard drives off of one
> > ide cable.  I know though that other configurations are possible.  --
> > d
> > 
> 
> Well,  my cdrom is hdb... Here is an extract of dmseg:
> ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f
> hda: ST36531A, 6204MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=790/255/63, UDMA
> hdb: HITACHI CDR-8435, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hdc: ST36531A, 6204MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=13446/15/63, UDMA
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15   
> 
> I did not assemble the machine myself and I cannot open it at this
> moment, but I will check for the cables.
> 
> 
> > Eric Maes <fr013269@worldonline.be> writes:
> > 
> > > Douglas S. Oliver wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Something looks very wrong here.  Your physical drives, not
> > > > partitions, use the hda, hdb, hdc designations.  Partitions would be
> > > > hda1 hda5, hdb1 hdb5, etc.  Unless hda or hdb is not a hard drive, hdc
> > > > could not be a hard drive.  That would make three hard drives.  -- d
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hmm, I must have been really confused by this whole upgrade  business...
> > > In fact, my first disk is hda, which has 3 partitions, hda1 and hda2
> > > both NTFS on which NT is installed and an FAT partition called hda3. My
> > > second disk is indeed hdc. I just checked with fdisk, and I do not have
> > > a hdb. Now that you mentioned this, I remember that after installing
> > > RH5.2 a year ago, I was surprised that it had installed itself on hdc...
> > >
> > > Cheers - Eric
> > >
> > > > Eric Maes <fr013269@worldonline.be> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm having some trouble upgrading my current RH5.2 box to RH6.1.
> > > > > The environment:
> > > > >
> > > > >       PC with two hard disks, the first disk has two partitions, on the first
> > > > > (hda to Linux) is installed NT, the
> > > > >       second partition is an FAT partition (hdb to Linux) which I used as a
> > > > > file interchange mechanism.
> > > > >       The second disk (hdc) holds my current Linux RH5.2 installation.
> > > > >       Booting is done with LILO.
> > > > > I have the new boot and update disks from RH.
> > > > >
> > > > > Upon booting from the boot disk, I enter: linux updates.
> > > > > First question: in the instructions on the web site, it is said that the
> > > > > 'updates' disk will be asked for and that then the installation will
> > > > > continue as normal. I am not asked for this 'updates' disk and after
> > > > > booting, the loader loads the GUI stuff from CDROM (I have also tried it
> > > > > with the text mode installation with the same results).
> > > > > The procedure then identifies my keyboard and mouse and then I have the
> > > > > option to do a full install or an upgrade.
> > > > > After choosing 'upgrade", I get the following:
> > > > >
> > > > >       Error mounting ext2 filesystem on hda1: Invalid argument
> > > > >
> > > > > When I hit the OK button, my system freezes with a dialog box saying:
> > > > > 'Searching for Red  Hat Linux installations'.
> > > > >
> > > > > Looking at the other screens I see the following:
> > > > > Dialog screen:
> > > > >       File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/todo.py" line 1130 in
> > > > > upgradeFindRoot
> > > > >       isys umount('/mnt/sysimage')
> > > > >       File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/isys.py" line 8 in umount
> > > > >       return _isys.umount(what)
> > > > >       System Error: (22, 'Invalid argument')
> > > > >
> > > > > Systemlog screen:
> > > > >       Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,1)
> > > > >
> > > > > I suppose that the upgrade procedure is confused by the fact that my
> > > > > current installation sits on the second disk?
> > > > >
> > > > > Are there any parameters that I can pass to the boot command to solve
> > > > > this?
> > > > >
> > > > > TIA - Eric
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > *>Douglas S. Oliver<*
> > > > *>dsoliver@earthlink.net<*
> > 
> > --
> > *>Douglas S. Oliver<*
> > *>dsoliver@earthlink.net<*

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