Bug 128913
| Summary: | No disk /dev/hda found, /dev/hdc instead | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Leonard Evens <len> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-08-01 17:23:46 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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I've discovered that the machine has in addition to the primary and secondary IDE controllers a PCI built-in ATA controller, which the hard disk is presumably connected to. That could be an explanation for why the hard disk shows up as /dev/hdc. In any case, I still would like to know if I am likely to encounter any dual boot problems---keeping in mind the know bug in the installer---if I go ahead with the installation using the kernel option hdc=C,H,S. Also, are there any ongoing problems with ATA controllers in FC2? bugzilla is not a support forum. I've never seen anything like this hardware-wise. I don't think it's likely to cause problems but can't really say for certain. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040308 Description of problem: I want to install FC2 on a Dell Inspiron 1100 as a dual boot with XP machine. I resized the XP partition using Partition Magic. I know about the XP bug in the FC installer and the suggested solution which is to tell the installer the CHS geometry of the disk. So I ran the FC2 rescue CD and tried to find that. I found no hda in dev, only hdc. fdisk -l /dev/hdc gave the expected partition information. I then ran the installer invoking Disk Druid to do the partitioning but stoppes short of actually doing anything. Again it showed me only /dev/hdc with the expected partition. Checking the boot and other messages with Ctrl-Alt Fn for different n seemed to indicate that the CD drive was /dev/hda. It is possible that Dell reversed the hard drive and CD drive on the IDE controller ports, putting the disk on ID1 instead of ID0. They could have done this either on purpose or by accident. But I thought that XP had to be on /dev/hda in order to boot. I can of course run the installer with the kernel argument hdc=C,H,S with my values for those aparameters, but I'm not sure if I will get a bootable system. Has anyone ever seen anything like this on a Dell or any other computer? Is it likely to work if I proceed? Where will grub put the relevant pointer that is supposed to go in the MBR? Were this a desktop computer, I would open it up and check the controller ports and the cables, but I can't do that with a laptop. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start rescue CD 2. Look at dev 3. Run fdisk -l /dev/hdc Actual Results: Showed no /dev/hda Expected Results: Expected to find hda Additional info: