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My system has a SATA 320gb hard disk and a PATA 80gb hard disk. I tried installing Centos 5. I couldn't install it. It didn't even reach the patiitioner page. ...
  1. 06-07-2009 #1
    jophin4u
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    CentOS booting problem

    My system has a SATA 320gb hard disk and a PATA 80gb hard disk. I tried installing Centos 5. I couldn't install it. It didn't even reach the patiitioner page. Got stuck at first itself. Then i removed my PATA HDD nd installed successfully. But when i connected the hard disk back, i couldn't boot.. i showed kernel panic. Could anybody please help me??
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    I assume with one hard drive disconnected you can boot CentOS from the hard drive. Lets check disk structure, grub menu entry and fstab contents. Boot from CentOS on the hard drive and post the output of
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    sudo fdisk -l
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
cat /etc/fstab
    Then shutdown the system, connect all hard drives and boot from a live CD and post the output of
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    ls /dev/disk/by-label -l
    the -l in above commands has a small L not a one
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    With a mix of sata and pata discs, you need to configure your bios to see the sata drives as pata/ide drives. This will limit you to 4 sata drives, unfortunately, but it will/should work. If that is the way your bios is already set up, then set it to recognize the sata drives as sata-only.
    Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.
    Just remember, Semper Gumbi - always be flexible!
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