dereke
11th February 2006, 06:00 AM
I have been trying to install a linux os on a second sata 2 drive (my first is a sata 2 as well) for a couple days now and I have been having problems. My first attempt was gentoo. I got through the whole installation fine except for the bootloader, which absolutely refused to acknowledge any sdb device I had, after making the copy to the mtab dir, making sure I mounted everything correctly, etc... So, I gave up on gentoo.
Now I am trying to install Fedora Core 4. Again, everything went smooth ... untill grub. I installed grub on a boot partition Fedora made on my second sata drive, /dev/sdb. I did not want grub messing around with my functional windows xp MBR, what I used today!, and my plan was to just boot from the second sata whenever I wanted to us Fedora. When I do this, my comp does the usual list of devices, etc... then on the last line (windows screen usually boots after this point) it just says ... GRUB.
I can't help but think about how evil that is... Is there anything wrong with my approach, or anything else, etcc.. I am pretty much as new as they come.
ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Now I am trying to install Fedora Core 4. Again, everything went smooth ... untill grub. I installed grub on a boot partition Fedora made on my second sata drive, /dev/sdb. I did not want grub messing around with my functional windows xp MBR, what I used today!, and my plan was to just boot from the second sata whenever I wanted to us Fedora. When I do this, my comp does the usual list of devices, etc... then on the last line (windows screen usually boots after this point) it just says ... GRUB.
I can't help but think about how evil that is... Is there anything wrong with my approach, or anything else, etcc.. I am pretty much as new as they come.
ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.