Fedora install failures

[wags2272]

I have tried loading Fedora 6 on my MPC server and it either dies during install or seems to install perfectly and then is unable to find the OS on reboot. Here is the hardware configuration of my system with one note. I am not installing to the RAID. I'm putting in a PATA drive in a removable carrier. The carrier is connected to the motherboard via SATA (Kingston removable drive frames allow for either PATA or SATA drives to be used).

*System Model* BUYMPC NF620
Enclosure Type: Tower
*Processor ^a * *Main Circuit Board ^b *
3.60 gigahertz Intel Xeon (2 installed)
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Intel SE7525GP2 FRU V0.01
Serial Number: QTFMUM53600092
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Intel Corporation SE7525GP20.86B.P.08.00.0037.061720052004 06/17/2005
*Drives* *Memory Modules ^c,d *
188.97 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
92.34 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

LITE-ON COMBO SOHC-5236K [CD-ROM drive]
TEAC CD-W58E USB Device [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

MEGARAID LD 0 MEGARAID SCSI Disk Device (146.81 GB) -- drive 1
WDC WD800JD-60JRA0 [Hard drive] (80.02 GB) -- drive 0 3072 Megabytes
Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM_2A' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM_2B' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM_1A' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM_1B' has 1024 MB


*Controllers*
Standard floppy disk controller
Intel(R) 6300ESB Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 25A2
Intel(R) 6300ESB Ultra ATA Storage/SATA Controller - 25A3
Primary IDE Channel [Controller] (2x)
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller] (2x) NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX
*Bus Adapters*
MegaRAID SCSI 320-2X RAID Controller
Intel(R) 6300ESB USB Universal Host Controller - 25A9
Intel(R) 6300ESB USB Universal Host Controller - 25AA
Intel(R) 6300ESB USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 25AD
*Communications*
Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Network Connection
Physical Address: 00:0E:0C:3E:E8:0D

Thanks for the help,
Jonathan

 

[QatQat]

What does grub think of your PATA/SATA removable drive?


SATA drives are recognized as SCSI (SDA1, SDA2, SDC2, etc...)

Pata drives are normal IDE, HDA1, HDA2, etc...



Now your carrier allows either PATA or SATA but the connection to your motherboard is SATA; I think that grub.conf should try to start from a SATA disk.


QatQat


If I could have sex each time I reboot my server, I would definitely prefer Windoz over Linux!