This is an exclusive article regarding installation if Linux.
The reason for this post is that I dont want my friends to face similar problems as I did during my Installation....... :(
So to start with, First see which Linux are you installing ? Its totally a matter of choice.... If you are with anything other than Red Hat 9 Setup then most probably you wont have any problem as far as Detection of Hard disk.
But for RH9 its a compulsion that your HDD must be primary master [:P], Here comes the difficulty.
Most of us dont know all there this, so for those who don't know please google it what is Primary Master Primary Slave,Secondary Master and Secondary Slave.
Now if you have an IDE drive (HDD) this is not an issue but for those with SATA (like me) a big issue arises at the start itself, So how to solve this probelm ?
Here is the solution....
Now again this solution vary with the Mainboard you are using but the fundamentals will remain same.
For mine board (MSI) it was like
go to your BIOS, then In integrated device configuration for SATA devides mostly it is in Enhaced mode which supports 2 IDE and 4 SATA (may vary depending upon the board cost)
Here you have to change the mode to Disable. And connect you HDD to the SATA0 pin on your board.
Done.
Now your HDD is primary master.
so some boards like Intel :
Steps to be followed are as follows :
1. Go to BIOS Setup utility by pressing DEL Key.
2. In BIOS you have menus which are listed below
|Main
|Advanced--->|Drive Configuration
|Security |
|Power |
|Boot |
|Exit |
3. In Advanced Menu select "Drive-IDE-Configuration"
4. "Drive-IDE-Configuration" has following
Default options :
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ATA/IDE Configuration [Enhanced] ---> Press Enter / Select [Legacy]
If Legacy is selected then below ATA/IDE Configuration an option
called Legacy IDE Channels is shown where :
5. By Default it will detect other option , but if you have SATA
Hard Disk connected to your Primary SATA and CD or CDRW to your
Secondary Master then you have to select [SATA P0/P2, PATA] by
pressing enter. You will get other options also which are :
[SATA P0/P2, P1/P3]
[SATA P1/P3, PATA]
[SATA P0/P2, PATA] --> Select this option
[PATA only]
6. Try other options according to your drives connected.
In this post I concentrated on just how to make your HDD the primary master for particularly RH9 which is most used for Servers all over the world.
Soon I will post how to make you partitions and the significance regarding them....
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