Hi there, I've had a bit of a read around about this but I'm not 100% sure what the problem actually is, so in a hope that someone else has seen the same problem, it is: I have a motherboard with a failed IDE0 but IDE1 is fine. After the failure I rearranged everything and then installed W2K so I could again use the windows stuff that I on occasion require since the failure killed the original IDE0 master drive data which was also windoze Next I bought a IDE RAID Sil0680 card and couldn't get that to do anything properly - w2k needed a driver and my paragon partition backup/manager program didn't detect the drives on the RAID controller (that's part of how I do drive drive imaging and resizing to new larger drives) Grub also wouldn't boot Next I got a different brand IDE RAID card that turned out also to be Sil0680 but this time the paragon program could see all the drives But Grub couldn't boot Finally I got a non-RAID Sil0680 and still Grub couldn't boot I played with grub but couldn't get my RH9 to boot so I decided to do a reinstall to see if that could work out the correct grub settings I did a fedora install and it seemed to be happy with everything, but when I got to rebooting only W2K showed up (the grub MBR was not even on the BIOS HDD-0 W2K drive) I also tried grub-install to the W2K drive (after saving the boot block) and grub just says "GRUB" at boot time. The setup is: Motherboard IDE0 master/slave nothing but still enabled Motherboard IDE1 master is a Panasonic DVD drive Motherboard IDE1 slave is a HDD with Win2K Card IDE0 master linux /boot, / and swap Card IDE0 slave extra drive with 1 ext3 and 1 fat Card IDE1 master/slave nothing When I boot linux recover Card IDE0 master is hda Card IDE0 slave is hdb Motherboard IDE1 master is hdg Motherboard IDE1 slave is hdh So it looks like under Linux the drives start with the IDE Card and then the Motherboard (weird) The fedora install put the MBR into hda but I can't boot hda, only hdh (which the BIOS calls HDD-0) If I "grub-install /dev/hdb" it says the BIOS doesn't know the hdb drive but if I "grub-install /dev/hda" it's happy to do that (and of course it's happy to do hdh also) Any hints, suggestions or ideas greatly appreciated. I'll look for a "grub" list next if noone here has any idea, but I thought I'd check here first. Any extra command output anyone thinks will help, just let me know -- -Cheers -Andrew MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding! -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
