On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 20:54 +0200, Cimmo wrote: > Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R ha scritto: > > >This is an amplification on the previous report of booting > >difficulties from a SATA drive. > > > >System has three IDE drives + DVD on the usual controller. > >I added a SATA drive to increase memory. The bios allows > >the the boot order to be changed, so I was able to install > >XP on the SATA drive and boot it. > > > >I installed FC4 to the SATA drive and used the advanced > >install option to write the boot to the SATA drive. But > >Windows still booted directly, no Grub. > > > > > Have you changed the device order? You have to change during > installation the order of the hard disks, put SATA you want on first, > and then install on MBR. > i think have to bugzilla this, because too many people doesn't > understand how to install grub on a sata device, also I've wrong it the > very first time. You _might_ have to change it; it depends on if we can detect the device order or not. We've considered doing some heuristics if we _can't_ detect it, but that's a lot of the time, and really, if you have a builtin IDE card and an add-on SATA card, guessing is just not very likely to work. We probably just need better UI to ask the user, as this is becoming a bigger problem with the rise in popularity of add-on SATA cards. -- Peter