On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 07:46 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
Ah, you have an IDE disk already in there. Anaconda has no way of
knowing
that you wish to boot from your SATA (it appears to anaconda as SCSI) disk
over your IDE disk. Anaconda does the save thing and installs to the
first harddrive it sees. Thats why when the Grub screen comes up you can
adjust it. Don't confuse the GRUB install location (/dev/hda or /dev/sda)
with the /boot location. GRUB installs to the master boot record of a
DISK not to a PARTITION. /boot is a PARTITION.
GRUB can be installed as the boot record on a partition, usually /boot.
Another MBR bootloader, such as one from Redmond, can then be convinced
to boot GRUB by setting the /boot partition as active, often within
restrictions such as being a primary partition within the first 1024
cylinders. This can be useful when certain non-open-source operating
systems silently overwrite the MBR, but do provide capabilities to
change the active partition.
Phil