Hard drive abooty problemo

[RedKennedy]

Ok....So I wanted to install Lunar on a slave drive, just to play with it until I get my new pc, so I tried putting in a 6.5gig, but that was being dumb with the BIOS, and took forever to not boot. So I used a trusty old 3.5g. For some reason (/dev/hda is not a valid BIOS drive...or something), I could not put GRUB or LILO on the first drive (ArchLinux), so I put it on the second (Lunar). Now I launch into some PXE (Pre-boot eXecution Environment) when I boot, and it hangs there for a bit, and then asks me to press H to boot from hard drive....It doesn't boot from the regular HD, but only from cd. If there's no cd in, it's all like BAHH!!! NO HARD DRIVE!!! EAT YOUR KIDS!!! and reboots. I realized the jumper pin in the first drive was wrong for slave (for slave, pin goes in middle, for single, pin don't go nowhere. ), but I had a working slave before that. I'm guessing I might have porked up the MBR on the first drive, but why would it say /dev/hda ain't a valid drive (I be running frmo the Lunar cd live, and then Kanotix live, same thing both times). I can mount the disk fine, but it won't let me install GRUB or LILO. What's the MS drive letter for slave drive? My BIOS uses MS naming conventions...So I can't figure the fucking thing out. C is master I think....CDROM is...Guess what? El-cdrom-o. D might be ZIP drive, possibly slave....Could anybody help me? Would I launch into PXE if hda had a bad MBR? I had the drives exactly like I did when they worked all happy together......Thankicles in advance.
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[Guest]

The PXE is your computer trying to boot from the NETWORK. Check your boot order, and you can just bump NIC/PXE down to the last boot option, if you like. HDA is the first HD, ie primary master, HDB is primary slave, HDC is secondary mastery, HDD is secondary slave, and so on. It sounds like you might have 2 drives set as master on the same chain.

[Guest]