SATA boot whish for FC3

[Bjorn Andersen]

I have a Intel Perl motherboard with a 2.4 Intel P4, HT processor. One
WD Raptor SATA as primary disk and one IDE Maxtor as primary IDE disk.

GRUB is getting installed on /dev/hda but bios is booting on /dev/sda.
If i change the bios to boot on /dev/hda (GRUB install) the system boots
as it should from /dev/sda. 


In config advanced alternatives for boot loader in GRUB install, the hda
is on top of sda and the GRUB will get installed on hda
See the top line: http://www.linuxin.dk/pictures/fc211.jpg
(sorry for the danish language)
But the standard place for loading linux kernel is /dev/sda2 (my /boot
partition)


Im not doing any "silly" things to the installer. Choosing STANDARD all
the way tru the installer, will not make the system boot.



Regards
Bjorn Andersen




On tir, 2004-07-20 at 19:51 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
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> On Tuesday 20 July 2004 02:06, Bjorn Andersen wrote:
> > Since Fedora Core 1 and the support of SATA disks there haw been a
> > problem in detection of standard boot device.
> > The Fedora installer dont detect what device the bios will boot on.
> > Annaconda standard boot on /dev/hda if it is present, but the people
> > that have a SATA disk as primary boot device, will have to switch the
> > boot loader to that device. If not, the bootloader will not boot,
> > because it is set on hda (the secondary harddisk).
> >
> > It would be a god idea to have Anaconda detect what primary bootdevice
> > from the bios. (like SuSE)
> 
> What exactly are you talking about?  Grub will be installed to the first 
> harddrive detected.  Be it a SCSI drive (/dev/sda or /dev/sdb or...) or a 
> SATA disk (still could be /dev/sda or could be /dev/hdd or even /dev/hda) 
> or a PATA disk (/dev/hda or /dev/hdb or...).  All the different configs 
> I've thrown at Fedora, anaconda will automagically install the boot loader 
> on the correct drive.  Perhaps you're doing something silly during the 
> install to break this?
> 
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