Saddletramp Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 i just installed mandriva one on an older dell optiplex gx300. when the system boots, it hangs right at the end of the graphical bar (obviously where it's trying to detect disks) and i get the message that it was unable to detect a primary hard disk (or something like that). gives me the option of F1 to continue or F2 to run setup. F1 works fine and i can boot normally. i've played in F2 and switched things around a couple times. get same hang time and can't find disk message everytime. searches have just about all gotten no results so far. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Boot the Mandriva One CD, and from the prompt type: fdisk -l if it lists it, then it should be OK to boot and if you've managed to install it on the hard disk, it should also be able to boot afterwards. I'm wondering if problem with hdd, so try this: Press ESC at lilo screen, and type: linux noapic and see if it boots. If not, add some more parameters to the end of the line, one of: nolapic acpi=off ide=nodma so your next one would be: linux noapic nolapic and so on adding the next one and report back with what worked to get you up and running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saddletramp Posted July 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 shouldn't have anything to do with the hdd, as i'm here now and like i said, it boots just fine if i press the F1 key. just takes a couple minutes (it seems) to get past the failed detection process. fdisk -l does see everything right where it should be. the actual wording on the error is: primary hard disk drive 1 not found. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Maybe Dell's hidden utility partition? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saddletramp Posted July 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 (edited) problem solved!! :) In the bios setup hit ALT+F then ALT+B redetects the hard drive thought about that hidden dell utility. have that on another system that tried to mess with my dual boot setup. thanks Edited July 14, 2006 by Saddletramp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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