On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 12:08 -0500, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > the problem in my case is that when I have an IDE drive in the > machine, the BIOS treats that as "the first drive" and when I don't > have an IDE drive in the machine, the BIOS treats the SATA drive as > "the first drive". I think that is the main source of grub-install > confusion since there is no inherent way in GRUB (or NTLDR for that > matter) to specify bus/drive/partition ... only drive/partiton. Does manipulating the /boot/grub/device.map file by hand do you any good? The next obvious thing, to me, is to install GRUB to both drives with the same configuration, giving you a common menu to boot up to either drive, the one that you want, no matter which the boot-up actually starts from. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
