[CentOS] grub issues on reinstall.

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

zGreenfelder wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:26 AM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>> zGreenfelder wrote:
>>> Hi all.
>>>
>>> sorry for an immediate question after subscribing, but I've managed to
>>
>> Not a problem.
>>
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>> What's in /boot/grub/device.map?
>
> Thanks for a quick response, I wait till I could be home and in front
> of the machine to be sure
> device map has
> (hd0)       /dev/sdi
>
> running find /grub/grub.conf from the grub shell when the machine
> tries to boot returns (hd0,0)
> and /dev/sdi1 is where /boot mounts.
>
That's *very* odd. You don't have an HBA or something else - flash key?
anything? What's on this system that it sees stuff that high?

Directly related: look at your BIOS, and see what drives it sees, and
what's bootable, in what order. Perhaps you can move up the boot drive?
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