> Well I'd wipe the drive clean using Gparted with a cross
> format. Do a minimal kickstart installation to install GRUB
> on the MBR.

I've read a bit on kickstart installations, and now I get to delve deeper  :)
Thanks for the advice!

Can't you put the SATA drive on native instead of IDE in your bios ?
> It decreases performance and could be problematic.

Quite right, all of the information that I found on the grub error paired SATA and RAID.  
I chose this because I wanted to remove the variable of a RAID installation.  In retrospect, that was an unfounded idea.

Thanks,
Rob