Fedora Installation problems
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Hi, I've two IDE HDD and one DVD RW Drive in my machine. I've got the new HDD recently. Now I tried install Fedora in my machine after writing the ISO image to a DVD. When But my machine always reboots when I opt to boot from CD. Earlier I've installed Ubuntu in my machine (before installing new HDD ) but this time that CD Rom is also not functioning. Is there anythign wrong wtih my BIOS configuration? I would appreciate if you could put some light on this?
-Sarath. "Great hopes make everything great possible" - Benjamin Franklin
My blog - Sharing My Thoughts, An Article - Understanding Statepattern
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Hi, I've two IDE HDD and one DVD RW Drive in my machine. I've got the new HDD recently. Now I tried install Fedora in my machine after writing the ISO image to a DVD. When But my machine always reboots when I opt to boot from CD. Earlier I've installed Ubuntu in my machine (before installing new HDD ) but this time that CD Rom is also not functioning. Is there anythign wrong wtih my BIOS configuration? I would appreciate if you could put some light on this?
-Sarath. "Great hopes make everything great possible" - Benjamin Franklin
My blog - Sharing My Thoughts, An Article - Understanding Statepattern
If the drives are both on the same cable, try changing the jumper setting on the new drive to "Slave" instead of the default "CS" (cable select) if you havn't already. If the drives are on different cables (1 disk/controller), then make sure they are both set to master.
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Hi, I've two IDE HDD and one DVD RW Drive in my machine. I've got the new HDD recently. Now I tried install Fedora in my machine after writing the ISO image to a DVD. When But my machine always reboots when I opt to boot from CD. Earlier I've installed Ubuntu in my machine (before installing new HDD ) but this time that CD Rom is also not functioning. Is there anythign wrong wtih my BIOS configuration? I would appreciate if you could put some light on this?
-Sarath. "Great hopes make everything great possible" - Benjamin Franklin
My blog - Sharing My Thoughts, An Article - Understanding Statepattern
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If the drives are both on the same cable, try changing the jumper setting on the new drive to "Slave" instead of the default "CS" (cable select) if you havn't already. If the drives are on different cables (1 disk/controller), then make sure they are both set to master.
On the IDE Slot 1 I configured my old HDD. On the other slot available, I connected both DVD Drive and new HDD ( contains the Windows XP installation ) using single cable.
-Sarath. "Great hopes make everything great possible" - Benjamin Franklin
My blog - Sharing My Thoughts, An Article - Understanding Statepattern
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On the IDE Slot 1 I configured my old HDD. On the other slot available, I connected both DVD Drive and new HDD ( contains the Windows XP installation ) using single cable.
-Sarath. "Great hopes make everything great possible" - Benjamin Franklin
My blog - Sharing My Thoughts, An Article - Understanding Statepattern
This would really surprise me if the problem was related to Fedora. Try this: On IDE 0 (the first controller), connect your new HDD as the master drive and set the jumper to master. Then connect your old HDD as the secondary device on the same cable and set the jumper to slave. Also, make sure that the cable is 80 pin and/or ATA133, you don't want two HDD operating off of a low cable rating, like ATA66. Now, on IDE 1 (the second controller), connect your DVD drive as master and set the jumper as such. If you think that the BIOS is the culprit, then reset it now. Now, go into your BIOS and set the boot order like this: 1 - Floppy Drive (if you have one) 2 - Secondary Master CD/DVD Drive 3 - Primary Master Hard Disk 4 - Primary Slave Hard Disk Now try booting the Fedora installation DVD.