[NCLUG] New 80GB maxtor won't fdisk...

[Michael Crosiar]

Ok, I moved the drive from hdc to hdb, and it
fdisk/setup fine. I next went to install grub stage1
on the mbr of '(hd1)' using grub-install, but must
have messed something up, because now neither drive
will boot!! help!

What do I do now?

--- Sean Reifschneider <jafo-nclug at tummy.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 03:41:51PM -0600, C. Michael
> Crosiar wrote:
> >bootup Linux says it recognizes the drive on hdc,
> which is correct. But when
> >I go to fdisk the drive I get the message "Unable
> to open /dev/hdc". I
> 
> I'd bet you used to have a CD burner in there on
> /dev/hdc.  Check your boot
> file (/etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/grub.conf) and
> look for "hdc=ide-scsi".
> You probably want to remove that, otherwise you'll
> need to look for the
> drive on /dev/sd*.
> 
> Sean
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