Grub drive order problem

[av1 at ansae.com]

av1 at ansae.com writes: 

> Just to clarify my previous post, my /boot/grub/device.map file says this  
> 
> (fd0)	/dev/fd0
> (hd0)	/dev/hda
> (hd1)	/dev/hdb
> (hd2)	/dev/sda
> (hd3)	/dev/sdb  
> 
> So the two IDE drives, hda and hdb are (hd0) and (hd1) as expected. If I 
> run the grub shell forom linux and do "find /grub/stage1" it says  
> 
> (hd0,0)
> (hd1,0)  
> 
> also as expected. My two copies of grub are on /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1.  
> 
> However, when I boot the machine, break out of the grub menu, go into the 
> grub shell, and type "find /grub/stage1", I get  
> 
> (hd0,0)
> (hd3,0)  
> 
> So now grub thinks my 2nd ide drive is (hd3) not (hd1).  
> 
> How do I fix this? Any advice appreciated!  
> 
> --Cliff Avey
 

I found the problem. I went to the Boot screen of my AMI Bios Setup. I had 
previously used the boot priority option to configure my machine to try the 
cdrom first, then the hard disk. However, I had not noticed there was 
another option labeled "Hard Disk Drives". I went into that and saw that for 
some reason the drives were ordered 

IDE Master
SATA Drive #1
SATA Drive #2
IDE Slave 

This was why when grub ran natively it decided the 2nd IDE drive was (hd3). 

I changed the order to 

IDE Master
IDE Slave
SATA Drive #1
SATA Drive #2 

After I rebooted, all was well. Thanks for your replies. 

 --Cliff