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Originally Posted by kilgoretrout
Are you sure about that? I have the same mb and can access all PATA/SATA drives in the bios boot selection screen.
I haven't installed Rh since 9.0, but it used to have an option to make a boot floppy. You can try reinstalling and either try the boot floppy option or direct the installer to install the boot loader to the SATA drive mbr. Normally, that would be the default anyway.
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kilgoretrout,
I am positive that my BIOS only lists the Samsung HDD, the Lite-On DVD±RW and the FDD as bootable devices. The only way the Western Digital HDD can be accessed as a bootable device is if the drive order is changed in the HDD selector screen on the Boot page. I will attach a screenshot when I am able to do so (later in the AM). It is now around 5 am and I am just done putting FC3 on this machine and a laptop. I am pooped.
Well,
Got the issue resolved.
The whole idea was that I was going to install FC3 on the second HDD (Western Digital), and leave the Samsung SATA HDD (Windows XP) alone.
Didn't work, no matter what I tried, including suggestions received on
www.fedoraforums.org, a really great Linux forum.
Turns out the WD HDD was not being listed as a bootable device and therefore Grub could not see it to boot from, and neither could a number of other boot managers.
So I have given up on that idea and have installed FC3 on the Samsung, on free space created by resizing a partition.
Fedora and Windows booting fine, Fedora shows its boot menu and boots to WinXP by default.
I now have FC3 installed on 20 GB, with an 18 Gb / partition.
Next request:
How do I go about providing FC3 with extra space taken from the WD HDD, if it should ever become necessary?
My whole-hearted thanks to all those who took the time and effort to help me on these forums.
NPP