i have looked everywhere trying to solve this problem and i hope this is the place where i might finally solve my problem. i have obtained a copy of redhat 8.0 and wish to install it on my second hard drive as i have xp on the first. i boot from the cd and choose to install in graphical mode. it runs through the checks and freezes, see below block: 352 slots per qeue, batch=8 uniform multi-platform E-IDE driver revision: 6.31 ide: assuming 33MHZ system bus speed for PIO modesi overide with idebus=xx vp_ide via vt82c68ba (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:07.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000- 0xd001, bios settings: hda:dma, hda:dma ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008- 0xdoof, bios settings: hdc:dma, hdd:dma hda: wdc wd2005BA, ATA disk drive hdb: ST320423A, ATA disk drive hdc: memorex twelve maxx 1032, atapi cd,dvd-rom drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-ox376 on irq 15 hda: 40088160 sectors (20525mb) w12048 KiB cache, CHS=2495/255/63, UDMA(66) hdb: 40011300 sectors (20486mb) w1512KiB cache, CHS=2490/255/63, UDMA(66) hdc= ATAPI 32xcd-rom cd-r/rw drive, 2048kb cache uniform cd-rom driver revision: 3.12 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide partition check: hda: hda1 hdb: My first drive is a western digital 20gb and the second is a seagate 20gb. i can install rh fine if i disconnect my master and make the seagate the master drive but can not have both connected. Does anyone have any ideas? any help would be greatly appreciated! thank you in advance dan

1.verify that in WinXP you can see the harddrive. 2.verify that the partition table in the second HD is proper. wipe it if you can. 3.check the jumper setting, may be it is set as master when you have plugged it in as slave.

xp does see it as b4 linux i used it to store my file and stuff on. i formatted the drive before attempting to install rh. (but it was formatted to fat) the jumper settings are correct and in dos it reconizes the xp hd as master and the other as slave. any other ideas??

whats the problem? Connect it as master, install redhat, then connect it as slave! simple. Though that doesn't explain why the problem is occuring... If the hd shows fine in the bios then there must be a problem with the redhat install CD kernel.