XP SP1 and SuseLinux 9.3 recognize my HDD, the BIOS does not
Hi,
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I bought a Seagate Barracuda 80GB drive and installed it on my Dimension 4550 (2.4GHz P4, 533 MHz FSB). I followed the Cable Select directions and made sure it sat in the slot properly.
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When I booted it up, the BIOS (initially version A04) did not recognize the drive. But when I booted into Windows XP, XP's disk management actually recognized the drive automatically. I was able to initialize the drive and I could even format it. So, the drive itself is OK.
I then tried installing Suse 9.3 on the second Hard drive and during that, GRUB got installed on the XP Drive. Suse installed fine but Grub was unable to get to the Suse hard drive when it booted up (Error 21 - which means that the disk could not be found). I used XP recovery's fixmbr to get back the original configuration. I have done this GRUB installation and uninstallation twice now.
The strange thing is that both OSs recognize the seagate drive - but the BIOS itself does not. I then flashed my BIOS with A06 from A04 - but it still did not help.
Has anyone encountered a similar problem?
Any pointers will be highly appreciated.
Thanks, -Nilagriva
PS: I am using the installation CD to boot into Suse and am sending this mail from the OS on the drive which has this problem! So this seems to be something very BIOS specific