Re: GRUB woes: GRUB Hard Disk Error

[Eric Viseur <eric.viseur@xxxxxxxxx>]

Also please note that if that card has SATA 2.0 capacity, native mode is probably named "AHCI" on the bios.

2010/9/19 Rob Del Vecchio <rob.delvecchio@xxxxxxxxx>

> Well I'd wipe the drive clean using Gparted with a cross
> format. Do a minimal kickstart installation to install GRUB
> on the MBR.

I've read a bit on kickstart installations, and now I get to delve deeper  :)

Thanks for the advice!

> Can't you put the SATA drive on native instead of IDE in your bios ?

> It decreases performance and could be problematic.

Quite right, all of the information that I found on the grub error paired SATA and RAID.  

I chose this because I wanted to remove the variable of a RAID installation.  In retrospect, that was an unfounded idea.

Thanks,

Rob

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