Re: [LUG] A new conundrum

[Stephen Cutts <stephen.cutts@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah replacing where the sata connectors were helped, along with moving the jumped to the slave position on the IDE hdd. I think all I need to do now is reinstall grub (as I installed ubuntu without the other two HDDs connected) and pray I get options when I boot.

On 13 April 2011 21:48, Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 13/04/11 21:15, Stephen Cutts wrote:
> On 13 April 2011 20:46, Stephen Cutts <stephen.cutts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Ever so slight issue with doing that Kevin, I'm hooked up via sata not IDE.
>>
>
> Though it did give me the idea to unhook my hdd that was hooked up via IDE
> (which was purely just acting as file storage) et voila the ubuntu partition
> boots without a hitch.

In which case the most likely explanation is that the BIOS is set to
boot IDE before SATA and a partition on the IDE drive is marked as bootable.


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