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Motherboard Problem (Gigabyte K8N-PRO)! Always Boots to Slave HD! |
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Aug 17th 2004 | #158691 Report |
Member since: Jan 14th 2003 Posts: 942 |
Is anyone here familiar with Gigabyte's "Dual BIOS" interface? No matter what my boot order is, i always boot to the slave HD (WinXP). This causes problems because i have GRUB installed on the MBR in the master HD (FC2). The only way i can boot to the master HD is if i physically unplug HD-2. I am not sure what the problem is, and maybe some of you with a Gigabyte motherboard can tell me of some option i have unknowingly left disabled or something. Nos. |
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Aug 17th 2004 | #158693 Report |
Member since: Nov 28th 2002 Posts: 350 |
are you sure that you have the jumpers properly set on both harddrives? What you want your slave drive to be may have the jumpers set to be a primary
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Aug 17th 2004 | #158694 Report |
Member since: Jan 14th 2003 Posts: 942 |
First i had the pins set manually to master/slave. Then i tried moving both pins to cable select and making sure that the black cable was on the master HD, as the manual says to do. So yes, i am sure that the physical hardware of it is correct. I'm not sure what i am missing, though... :( Nos. |
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Aug 17th 2004 | #158700 Report |
Member since: Nov 26th 2001 Posts: 2586 |
How do you have Grub set up? WinXP cannot be boot as a slave drive, unless you trick Grub into thinking its a primary drive when it isn't...
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Aug 17th 2004 | #158715 Report |
Member since: Jan 14th 2003 Posts: 942 |
Here's how i set XP up.. I had a slave 120GB and a master 80GB. I noticed that Windows wouldn't allow me to install XP onto the slave, so all i did was unplug the master, and voila. After XP was installed, i made sure to see if it would boot correctly, and then started with FC2 onto the master 80GB (that way GRUB can be written on hda1, MBR). Like i said, i put GRUB onto the MBR of the master 80GB, and changed the BIOS so that the boot order went to CD, HD-1, then HD-2. I restarted, and i boot straight to XP. I have tried all sorts of boot orders, and it always boots to XP. As i said, the only way i can successfully boot to FC2 is if i unplug the XP hard drive (slave 120GB). Nos. |
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Aug 18th 2004 | #158729 Report |
Member since: Jan 14th 2003 Posts: 942 |
Okay, i found the setting in the BIOS. Nos. |
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