Johnny Hughes wrote: > John Thompson wrote: >> On 2007-11-12, Alain Spineux <aspineux at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Nov 9, 2007 10:55 PM, John Thompson <john at vector.os2.dhs.org> wrote: >>>> Grub came up on reboot, suggesting that it did indeed overwrite the lilo >>>> boot record in the MBR, but grub was unable to load completely and >>>> required a hard reset to recover. >>> Do you have multiple hard disk ? >> Yes, 2 IDE drives and a 5 device SCSI raid array. >> >>> Is your disk the master on the first controller ? >> Yup. >> > > If you want grub to right to MBR on the first drive, you don't have to > tell it anything. > > If you DO pick a drive, it does not write to MBR, but the first > partition on the drive (or another one if you pick that). That is > needed sometimes, but not most of the time. Most of the time, you do > not want to go into the advanced settings at all (if centos is going to > reside on it's own drive). I don't see how telling it to install on (hd0) aka /dev/hda will make it install on (hd0,0) aka /dev/hda1...