David Krings wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> One other thing that can mess up grub is if you tell the BIOS to >> boot from another drive. This can change the drive ordering that the >> BIOS reports. For example, if I boot normally, my internal hard >> drive is hd0, but if I boot off a USB drive, then that drive is hd0. > > I specified booting other device, but the sequence is CD, HDD, Floppy, > None. I can change the order of the HDDs in the BIOS and set the RAID to > be the first drive. > >> I don't know if grub has this problem, but I remember that with >> lilo, you had to tell it if you were booting off a SCSI drive on a >> mixed SCSI/IDE system. It would assume that the IDE drive was mapped >> as the first hard drive by the BIOS. I believe it would have the >> same problem with a system with both SATA and PATA controllers, but >> I never tried it. > > I do have DVD drives on the onboard IDE, but those are correctly > identified as optical drives. All hard drives appear as SCSI drives as > both the SATA RAID as well as the Promise IDE controller are listed as > SCSI drives in the BIOS. > > I will keep turning off boot other device in mind if I ever attempt > installing GRUB again, but it really shouldn't be any problem as I have > the boot device sequence and the drive sequence clearly defined. > > Besides that, I don't think I ask from GRUB to perform something > extraordinarily special. FakeRAID SATA is around for about two years and > F7 does load the correct drivers and detects the RAID array correctly. I > strongly believe that the RAID isn't the problem here, but the Promise > controller and only when it installs its BIOS as there is generally not > a problem when I disconnect the drives. > > David > I guess I didn't explain thing clearly. On several of my systems, you have the option of hitting a function key during boot, and it brings up a list of devices you can boot from. If I pick the USB drive, or the second IDE drive, then that drive becomes hd0 when you boot. Where this can be a problem is that when you boot off a CD/DVD/floppy, this is not the mapping you have. You get the default mapping instead, so the drive will be hd1 instead of hd0. Because of this, grub will expect to find the next stage on hd1 instead of hd0. You can fix this by manually editing /boot/grub/device.map and then running grub-install using chroot. I suspect that the problem you are running into is that the device.map file does not match the setup after you hook the Windows drive back up, so that when you install another kernel, or update grub, grub is trying to use the wrong drive. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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