Installing 2nd hard drive in existing linux computer [SOLVED]

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Probably, yes, but Linux will cope with that. One can use fdisk to specify a range of formats, all of which Linux can use.

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Are there any BIOS settings that need to be changed so the HD is seen upon boot up?

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No, I think not. One can select the boot order, and it might be interesting to boot into the BIOS to see if your new disk is listed as an optional HDD to boot from.

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Nothing on any of the listings I’ve done shows that it has a boot sector?

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Not familiar with fedora so please forgive my ignorance if this does not work as intended.

The problem appears to be that the HDD (/dev/sdb) appears to be un-partitioned.
Therefore there are no mountable partitions.

You could install parted:

sudo yum install parted -y

Then list the available

sudo fdisk -l

(make sure /dev/sdb is listed)

Then run parted:

sudo parted -a optimal /dev/sdb

Note you will stay in parted shell, shown as (parted)
print out the current HDD configuraion

(parted) print

This should give you the list of partitions (I assume will be none)

To create a standard dos partition table (use gpt if you prefer GPT):

(parted) mklabel msdos
(parted) print

Create one primary partition as ext4
(you still need to create the filesystem, see later)

(parted) mkpart primary ext4 0% 95%
(parted) print

A new partition should be listed
then exit

(parted) q

Now create the filesystem

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1

Note, you can create ntfs instead of ext4 if you like.

After that it will get automounted (probably)

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Many thanks, Sezo.

Keith

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Apparently “parted” is not in my repository. googled how to get it and install it, suggestions using dnf and git. Also not in my distro. I feel like a rat in a maze, with no cheese.

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Surprised that parted is not in the repo for your distro, it is Fedora you are using?
According to this : https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/s1-disk-storage-parted.html

By default, the parted package is included when installing Fedora.

Have you got Gparted installed?

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Gparted was not part of my Fedora 19 installation either it is not in the repo.

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My system has an app called “gdisk” when when entered at the cmd line returns "GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.18

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I got it accomplished using fdisk. now I’m battling group permissions since the disk was initialized and mounted as root. Now how do I mark this thread as solved???

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I’m pleased that you managed to solve this problem.

To mark your topic as solved just edit the title of your first post on this topic as [SOLVED].
Thank you.

Keith