Installer doesn't recognise SATA disks as primary.
Bug #32357 reported by
IbeeX
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub-installer (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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grub-installer (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
The user has an nForce4 motherboard with both SATA and PATA drives attached. He set the SATA drive to be the first boot disk in the BIOS, but the installer installed GRUB to MBR on to the PATA drive instead.
Linux recognizes the PATA as /dev/sda and the SATA as /dev/sdb.
To work around the problem, he has set the first boot disk to the PATA drive.
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Added by Duncan-Lithgow so it can be edited:
These bugs all have probelms installing GRUB on a SATA disc. Some with PATA present, some without. I do not have enough technical understanding to find exact duplicates.
Bug #8497 bug #75676 bug #32357 bug #110292
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in grub-installer: | |
status: | Unknown → Incomplete |
Changed in grub-installer (Debian): | |
status: | Incomplete → Fix Released |
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On Saturday 27 November 2004 20:26, Greg Orlowski wrote:
> It was late at night, and I was tired and bleary eyed, but when it
> asked "Install Grub to MBR" I said yes. Unfortunately, while I
> partitioned only the sata drive and installed the base system to only
> that drive, it automatically did a grub-install (hd0) on the ide
> drive. It would be cool if, when installing on a multiple-hard-drive
> system, you could ask the user WHICH hard drive's MBR to use for a
> grub install.
This would be useful when installing on a system with software raid, I usually
like to install grub to the MBR of both disks a raid1 set.
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