Reinstall GRUB?

[Tim]

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 09:55 -0500, Doctor Who wrote:
> I recently added another hard drive to my machine.  Previously, I had
> 2 hard drives and Fedora was installed on one along with Vista.  I
> installed grub to Fedora''s root and used a 3rd party boot loader to
> access Fedora and other distros.
> 
> Now that the 3rd SATA drive is installed, Fedora's grub is messed up
> because it's not on the drive it thinks it is (different order to
> drives now). 

I see it's too late now (there's a "resolved" response further into the
thread), but I wonder if you did the obvious thing:  Plug the drives
into the board in a different order?

On multi-port motherboards I make a point of working out which is port
1, 2, etc.  And I plug in the first drive in the first port, and so on
and so forth.  Hopefully, any additional drives that get added onto the
higher ports, later on, don't change how the hardware orders the earlier
drives.

Of course, you could still have drive orders changing, depending on how
it manages the ports.  Or perhaps, depending on the speed the drives get
ready at.  But you've probably got more chance of things behaving
consistently, when you manage your hardware that way.

-- 
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