From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040130 Description of problem: Upgrade from RH9, which was SCSI only when RH9 was installed. Later added IDE drive as bulk storage (backups, etc). Since the IDE drive was added after the system was installed, and was just a "data-tub", it was not bootable. Therefore it was disabled in the BIOS. Initial boot after install worked, but subsequent boot after package updates failed; just printed GRUB loading message. After hours in grub he**, decided to try re-upgrading. During the second re-upgrade attempt, I selected third option (I think it is "install boot loader"; was NOT "upgrade", and NOT "leave alone"). Next screen showed the device to be installed upon. It was there I noticed that it was going to install on HDA (IDE drive). This is probably a fair assumption, but in this case wrong, with no option to change. By unplugging my IDE drive, and re-running, GRUB was properly re-installed, and the system booted and is alive (yeah!) allowing me to file a bugzilla report. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: Don't have a similar configuration I can try this on. Actual Results: GRUB appearantly installed on wrong drive. Didn't have an option to choose which. Expected Results: Should have been able to select drive to install MBR on. Additional info:
Upgrade just leaves the config as is except for changing the kernels. If you select to install a new boot loader, you can change the drive ordering in the "advanced boot loader" screen.