Re: grub SATA netinstall problem

["Oliver.Korpilla@gmx.de" <Oliver.Korpilla@gmx.de>]

John Baab wrote:
> I am looking for some help with a netinstall grub problem.
>
> I am trying to install via the 2/20/05 sarge netinstall.  The
> installation goes fine, but upon reboot I am getting "error loading
> operating system"  I have taken notice that durring the grub
> installation step, grub is installed to /dev/hda0, which is my
> secondary hard drive on my primary IDE controller.  Durring the
> partition steps I choose my partitions on /dev/sda0.  If I remove the
> IDE hard drive and install everything goes fine and I can boot the
> system, but upon hooking the IDE hard drive back up my system will no
> longer boot because my debian system is not located at (hd0,0).. How
> can I fix the net install so grub is installed to the mbr of my SATA
> drive and not my IDE drive?  Should this hard deive not be hooked up
> to my primary IDE controller?  I have an open raid controller that it
> can be hooked into instead,  If I remember correctly (its been a while
> since I did my last windows install) in order to get my SATA hard
> drive to be listed as the c: I had to install windows to it and add
> the IDE hard drive later.  Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Hi,

The trick is: Grub will IIRC give numbers to drives according to the 
boot sequence in BIOS. If you make your BIOS boot off your SATA it 
should work fine, since grub lists all disks, whether SCSI, SATA or PATA 
according to their boot sequence, IIRC.

Alternatively if that doesn't work you could still "play" with your 
numbers, like declaring (hd1,0) or whatever partition your system is on 
your "2nd drive (1)" in the grub menu.lst file.

And as a further alternative you should even be able to assign which 
drive is seen by grub under which number, but that's years ago for me now...

Hope anything of this helps, else I will be forced to live in shame! ;)

With kind regards,
Oliver Korpilla