On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 18:12 +0000, Keith Roberts wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, David G. Mackay wrote: > > > To: centos at centos.org > > From: David G. Mackay <mackay_d at bellsouth.net> > > Subject: [CentOS] Grub, pata, and sata > > > > I've just filed bug 0004634. Grub won't install onto my pata drive now > > that I have a sata drive installed. This is grub 0.97 on CentOS5.5. > > Has anyone else encountered this? I'm guessing that I can always > > install Fedora on hda, which should give me a working grub, but I was > > hoping for something a little less involved. > > > > Thanks, > > Dave Mackay > > Is the PATA drive on your Primary Master connection? > > If you use Gparted live CD or Parted Magic, how do those > drives show up? > > Regards, > > Keith (parted) print all Model: Hitachi HDT725032VLAT80 (ide) Disk /dev/hda: 320GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 107MB 107MB primary ext3 boot 2 107MB 320GB 320GB primary lvm Model: WDC WD450AA-00BAA0 (ide) Disk /dev/hdb: 45.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 107MB 107MB primary ext3 boot 2 107MB 45.0GB 44.9GB primary lvm Model: ATA SAMSUNG HD502HI (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 500GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 105GB 105GB primary ext3 boot 2 105GB 500GB 395GB primary ext3 3 500GB 500GB 107MB primary ext3 Error: Unable to open /dev/md0 - unrecognised disk label. Thanks, Dave