From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040809 Epiphany/1.3.8 Description of problem: Anaconda now has the option of finding out what partition is the primary boot option. I have a SATA (sda) and a IDE (hda) disk. SATA (sda) is the primarry boot option in Anaconda and that is correct, but when rebooting, GRUB looks for MBA at the IDE (hda) disk. Thats the wrong harddisk. Anaconda did not write the correct detected disk as primary boot device in GRUB. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install hda and sda (SATA) disk in tower 2. Install Fedora core 3 Test 2 3. Folow the default install 4. Reboot Actual Results: The prompt shows "GRUB" and stops loading Expected Results: Loading Fedora Additional info:
If you go to the advanced boot loader screen, you can swap the order of drives. Unfortunately, there's not a way on x86 hardware to reliably detect this :(
Wrong, that was in Fedora Core 2. In Core 3 Test2 i have no option for disabling the hda. The only shown option is the sda, but GRUB is gonna get installed on hda. I had to disable my hda before i was able to install Fedora and get GRUB to boot from sda.
By disabling hda i mean remove the IDE cable, so the only harddisk connected was the SATA disk.
Trust me here... if you click the checkbox beside "Advanced Boot Loader Options", you can sort the drives in a different order. Look and see, it's there :)
You were right, sorry ;-) I have reinstalled 3 times, but could not reproduce the "bug". I dont know what went wrong first time.