On 30-Dec-2000 Aaron Prohaska opined:
> Can someone give me some advice on how to install a IDE hard drive in a
> box where I already have two SCSI drives? I have added the IDE drive to
> the machine and have it setup as the master IDE and the CDROM as the
> slave IDE device.
>
> When I boot, linux companies about the hard drive not being the right
> file system type like ext2. I am wondering if the its trying to boot
> from the master IDE device instead of from the first SCSI device like
> it
> should.
>
> Would it help if I installed the IDE drive as the Slave behind the
> CDROM? My goal here is to get the IDE drive working and install Win2K
> on
> it and run that as a guest OS inside of VMWare. This is just the first
> step in many that I have to solve.
You might try booing from a boot floppy and setting it up, then rewriting
lilo to the mbr of the IDE drive.
Not sure how this will affect what you're trying to do, but I can't see
any reason it would.
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