On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 10:48 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
I guess I'm wondering if there's some more permanent way around this issue. Do I need to overwrite the MBR on hd0? Should I reconfigure the system so the PATA drives are not connected to the m/b at all (i.e., usb enclosures)? Is this a bug in grub? All this is assuming that I do not get rid of the PATA drives and/or get a new m/b that has <something else>....
It seems strange that this should be such a pain, even though in a rather oddball way it makes sense.
Thoughts?
I had a situation similar to yours. When I had a mix of PATA and SATA, I just could not boot the thing. Played with the BIOS settings, grub entries such as hd(0,0), etc etc. I finally gave up on it and went for lilo which had no issue booting the same system. I'd be happy to go back to grub if I could get it to work.
Akemi