From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: When asked about grub/lilo during installation, I installed Grub on /dev/sda1. But with this choice my system will not boot. I had unplug my IDE drives and then start the installation all over again. I've had this problem (and reported it) with an earlier version of RedHat Linux, so I thought that this wouldn't be any problem now. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Both SCSI and IDE on system 2. Choose grub to be installed on first SCSI disk 3. Reboot .... -> Won't work! Actual Results: I'm not sure, but it seems that grub doesn't recide on the scsi disk at all. Maybe it installed grub on /dev/hda1 ??? Expected Results: normal boot Additional info: As I said, this is a prior bug (I don't remeber any bug id). It's not a high priority bug, I know that - but it's pretty frustrating that you have to physically unplug all your ide disks when planning on installing you Red Hat Linux. I've got 3 IDE disks and four scsi disks. My / resides on /dev/sda1 but everything else contains data for example /var /users etc.
Does your BIOS allow you to specify if the SCSI or IDE drive chain is booted first? Almost all PC BIOS's boot from the first IDE drive, and it takes custom editting of the bootloader configuration to get it to boot from SCSI if IDE is present.
Yes it does and my IDE disks aren't even there. It started as a 100% scsi system but since IDE disks are much much cheaper I've installed a few large ones. My bootup sequence is: 1. Floppy 2. SCSI CD 3. SCSI Disk 4. none But this is not the problem. After I've unplugged my IDE disks and installed the system, I can reconnect the IDE disks and everything works just fine. / Robert
I think we're planning on some future enhancements that would help in your situation.
Dupe of a few others... future releases allow changing what we detect your drive order as.
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