On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 16:39 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > Again two hard drives IDE and SATA. Now SATA is /dev/sdf (hd5,2) and > fdisk finds it with no problem. But when I try to set up grub with: > > grub> root (hd5,2) it errors out saying no such location! Why can't grub > see that SATA drive? ---- because grub counts physical drives and you don't have 5 physical drives - thus grub might not have a problem 'seeing' the drive but you have to get it close... try [hd1,2] or [hd0,2] -- Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>