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Hard drive and linux problems

Oct 8, 2005 9:06AM PDT

Dell 800mhz 133 fsb Windows ME/Suse9.3
1st hard drive wd 20gb 2 hd seagate 80gb

Install seagate hd as 1 partition and formatted assigned "d" all drives recognized and operational

Loaded Ubuntu Hoary Hedge to 2nd hard drive and manually allocated 10gb plus swap file
The program completed install and I was able to boot from hd drive to Ubuntu.

Booted Suse9.3/yast/system/bootloaderconfiguration/reset/propose and merge with existing grub menu

Boot to grub default set for Suse 9.3 rebooted Suse 9.3 set boot manager for Windows default
Back to window ME everthing ok

Tried to boot UBUNTU got error message file did not exist

Checked boot screen seagate drive no longer found checked explorer no "D" drive

Checked connections to seagate drive all seated properly

Tried fdisk and cannot any longer find 2nd drive to delete or partition

need help
Ray

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Oct 9, 2005 2:02AM PDT

fdisk will only show Linux partitions as non-DOS (if at all). You would hit #4 "Show drives" ( or similar). May show other disk, maybe. You can wipe disk (or partition) using "delete non-DOS drive".
On question 2, did you put MBR on the head of HDA1 (default)? If not, you may not be able to dual-boot. You would need to boot from floppy or cd to find Ubuntu. Hope this helps. chuck

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Hi Chuckieu
Oct 9, 2005 5:23AM PDT

Thanks for the reply

I can find Windows ME dos partition and Suse 9.3 with swap partition as non dos on drive 1

Drive 2 with Ubuntu as 10gb partition cannot be found.
Error 21 '' drive does not exist'' when trying to boot from grub. Tried fdisk I used to partition and format and other fdisk for windows ME all the same results.

When asked by Ubuntu about setting all programs on boot manager I said ''yes''. Memory short but think it was ''MBR''

Sorry but I am not following your suggestion to boot from floppy or cd. Do you mean go thru the steps to reinstall Ubuntu.

I am under the impression it will try to install to drive 1 as drive 2 ''does not exist'' Has this new drive gone bad after one day use. By the way I also installed new 80 wire cable and set drives to csel.

Tried seagate seatools for diagnostics and it only found drive 1. What should I try now?

I am calling the drive 1&2 but they are really 0&1 on the computer. The o is master and the 1 is slave.

Thanks
Ray

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Update
Oct 9, 2005 12:21PM PDT

Chuckieu

Disregard this thread
Found problem in Bios settings
Ide configuration set for other atapi
Needed to be set at "auto"

Thanks again

Ray