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