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).

ignore this - posted to wrong thread.
It's early in the morning :-/.