> > I have a Dell Precision 360, which has both onboard > SATA and ultra ATA controllers, and I put one of each > kind of drive into the bays to make an experimental > machine with the xen kernel. > > After enabling both of drives, the BIOS recognizes > each drive, but it fails to boot, giving me the > message "secondary drive 1 not found". The BIOS gives > me a choice of going ahead or going to setup. Choosing > 'continue anyway' has no effect. > > I can circumvent this going to F12 to manually choose > to boot from the 'Primary Master' (rather than the > SATA primary, or the CD, or Hard Disk Drive C:). I > still get the warning about secondary drive 1 not > found, but now I can choose to go ahead. At this > point, grub takes over and everything is fine, boots > fine, both drives show up. > > In fact, I installed CentOS from the DVD, and during > installation there was no hint of a problem with using > the two drives. > > In the BIOS setup, I do not get all the drives to > choose from -- just Hard Disk Drive C: and the CD. > > Can anyone suggest a way around this? > > Check support.dell.com for newer BIOS and update as necessary - rh