help with Fedora

[Scott Berry]

Okay thanks for the help I will check that.

Is there a special way to get in to the rescue process?  Like typing 
"linux rescue" on the first disk?



At 01:44 AM 7/28/2005, you wrote:

>Hi,
>I would try going into rescue mode with fc3 and run fdisk to have a 
>look at the disk.  Once in rescue mode, fdisk /dev/hda should go in 
>the p command then should show the partitions.  If that give a 
>simelar error, I would start checking the hardware.
>Make sure the existing linux on the hard drive still boots etc.
>A thing that i assume you have checked is that the drive is actually 
>connected to the first primary IDE controler and therefore is called hda.
>I have had machines where the only drive was connected to the second 
>IDE controler's master making it hdc.
>HTH Willem
>
>
>On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Scott Berry wrote:
>
>>Hello list,
>>
>>I am having a problem with a Toshiba laptop.  When I go to install 
>>Fedora I get as far as the partitioning.  I wanted to do an 
>>automatic when I tried this however, it gave an error like 
>>this:  "i/o error not able to read /dev/hda."  I thought it was 
>>because there is another Linux distribution on the system but I 
>>went in and did a manual but the New Edit and Delete would not come 
>>up for some reason.  Can some one give me some advice as how I 
>>might go about fixing this?  It is Fedora 3.  I am currently using 
>>sighted assistance because my notebook does not have a serial port 
>>so I will have to set up Speakup for software speech.  Thanks much.
>>
>>Scott
>>
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