Installing Red Hat 6.1, the program does not find the 2'nd hard drive. I had a 2'nd hard drive installed (Seagate 4.3 Gig), so I could install Red Hat, but keep Windows 98 until I learn enough about Linux. I attempted to install the custom configuration, but when the disk partitioning program starts, it only lists my primary hard drive(hda). The hard drive is recognized in Windows (in device manager) and can be accessed in fdisk. How do I get to the 2'nd hard drive in disk partition? Also, the instructions say that the root partition has to be on the primary drive if the CD-ROM and the primary hard drive share a controller. How do I put the root partition on one hard drive, and the rest of the programming on the other? Thanx in advance for the help.
Is your second drive on a SCSI controller?
Using fdisk in windows, create a partition. It does not matter where or how big, just create one. After this Windows assigns a label to the new hard drive, and it will be recognized by the installation program.
Try installing again, but when you get to the Red Hat splash screen, press CNTL-ALT-F2. You should see a command prompt. Try these commands so we can see what drives the kernel was able to detect: cat /proc/scsi/scsi and ls /proc/ide If you could include this output in a comment on this bug it would be helpful.
Closing bug due to lack of activity.