Booting from SATA drive

[Peter Jones]

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 20:54 +0200, Cimmo wrote:
> Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R ha scritto:
> 
> >This is an amplification on the previous report of booting
> >difficulties from a SATA drive.
> >
> >System has three IDE drives + DVD on the usual controller.
> >I added a SATA drive to increase memory.  The bios allows
> >the the boot order to be changed, so I was able to install
> >XP on the SATA drive and boot it.
> >
> >I installed FC4 to the SATA drive and used the advanced 
> >install option to write the boot to the SATA drive.  But
> >Windows still booted directly, no Grub.
> >  
> >
> Have you changed the device order? You have to change during 
> installation the order of the hard disks, put SATA you want on first, 
> and then install on MBR.
> i think have to bugzilla this, because too many people doesn't 
> understand how to install grub on a sata device, also I've wrong it the 
> very first time.

You _might_ have to change it; it depends on if we can detect the device
order or not.

We've considered doing some heuristics if we _can't_ detect it, but
that's a lot of the time, and really, if you have a builtin IDE card and
an add-on SATA card, guessing is just not very likely to work.

We probably just need better UI to ask the user, as this is becoming a
bigger problem with the rise in popularity of add-on SATA cards.

-- 
        Peter