Boot disk problem
I have a Fedora Core 11 box that I had installed 4 hard drives, set up in a raid array, and using lvm to partition the drives up into storage space and OS space. I decided to add a 5th, non raid controlled drive for my OS, and give all of the previous hard drive space to my storage volumes. So, /boot and grub used to be installed to /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1, which were mirrored via RAID. However, I removed all partitions except those that were in my storage array already, and then created a new big partition at the front of the drive. So I was left with a /dev/sda1, sda4, sda5, and /dev/sdb1,4,5. I then proceeded to set them to Linux autoraid, created an array out of them, and added the new array to my storage volume group.
However, when I turn the power off, or it goes off, when it comes back up, if I don't select a boot device, it automatically tries to boot off my old drives, and not my new one which has grub installed and all the proper boot files. I should say that the older drives are all SATA. The new OS drive is an IDE drive. Perhaps I just need to change the bios boot order and fine tune it. But I was hoping there was something I could do to wipe the drive of grub without destroying data and my new partition map. |
Sounds like the bios is deciding to boot sata before ide. Can you set that in the bios?
Mebbe Advanced Setup/boot options or somewhere like that. |
Another alternative is to create a small partition for grub (say 2 meg) in the drive that is trying to load first then install grub in that partition and then use it to chainload your distro(s).
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ignore this - posted to wrong thread.
It's early in the morning :-/. |
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