On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 10:48 PM, MHR <mhullrich at 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