Also please note that if that card has SATA 2.0 capacity, native mode is probably named &quot;AHCI&quot; on the bios.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/19 Rob Del Vecchio <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rob.delvecchio@gmail.com">rob.delvecchio@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;">&gt; Well I&#39;d wipe the drive clean using Gparted with a cross<br>


&gt; format. Do a minimal kickstart installation to install GRUB<br>&gt; on the MBR.</span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>
</span></font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">I&#39;ve read a bit on kickstart installations, and now I get to delve deeper  :)</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">Thanks for the advice!</span></font></div></div><div class="im"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>


</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">&gt; </span></font><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;">Can&#39;t you put the SATA drive on native instead of IDE in your bios ?</span></div>


<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;">&gt; It decreases performance and could be problematic.</span><div>
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;">Quite right, a</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;">ll of the information that I found on the grub error paired SATA and RAID.  </span></div>


<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;"></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;">I chose this because I wanted to remove the variable of a RAID installation.  In retrospect, that was an unfounded idea.</span></div>


<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;">Thanks,</span></div>


<div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse;">Rob</span></div>
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