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Problems recognizing hard drive or controller

When Linux boots, you should see a series of messages on your screen such as:

: colour EGA+ 80x25, 8 virtual consoles
Serial driver version 3.96 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
lp_init: lp1 exists (0), using polling driver
...
Here, the kernel is detecting the various hardware devices present on your system. At some point, you should see the line
check:
followed by a list of recognized partitions, for example:
check:
hda: hda1 hda2
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
If, for some reason, your drives or partitions are not recognized, then you will not be able to access them in any way.

There are several things that can cause this to happen:


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