On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:18:28 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As far as I can understand the problem arises because you have > installed grub everywhere. When your BIOS kicks in it goes to the > first disk's MBR, reads the GRUB boot code, which starts probing each > and every device where a GRUB file system exists. Perhaps it also > checks each MBR? Eventually it arrives at /dev/hdd and GRUB loads up > its boot menu. You can tweak the /boot/grub/device.map file to > change the order of the devices and bring up /dev/hdd sooner. > > Alternatively and probably easier would be to change the boot order > of your drives in your BIOS menu. Since you have installed GRUB in > each drive's MBR you should be able to boot straight off your hdd > drive. > > HTH.
I think I've already written that I've installed Grub on every disk because I didn't know whether the BIOS allows booting from secondary slave and I didn't want to risk an unbootable system. I've already changed the BIOS boot order to look at /dev/hdd's MBR first but that didn't help.
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