Mark Knecht wrote (ao): > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On some machines changing from IDE to AHCI messes up the boot order > > selection in the BIOS - you may have to switch to AHCI, save settings, > > reboot, go back into the BIOS and then make sure the disk boot order > > settings are correct (whatever drive grub is installed on needs to be > > first). > > That's a very interesting idea Robert. Thanks. > > I'll have to be careful. I have 5 identical drives in the machine so > figuring out which is which when I'm in BIOS might be a bit of a > trick. > > I'll give it a go and report back. You can install grub on the mbr of all disks and not worry about the order. Especially if you work with UUIDs. Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
