On Monday, August 16, 2010 09:29:31 pm Paul Johnston wrote: > OLD BOX: Win2K and Red Hat dual-booted on a IDE drive > NEW BOX: WinXP and Ubuntu (now 10.04) dual-boot, each OS on its' own > SATA drive. Of course, GRUB handles the boot choices. > > I wanted to pull some files off the old IDE drive, so I connected it to > the legacy IDE port on the motherboard. When I powered up this new > hardware configuration, I was surprised when the GRUB screen asked me to > choose between Win2K and Red Hat Linux. GRUB preferred the IDE drive to > the two SATA drives. > > How do I configure GRUB to prefer the SATA drives over the old IDE > drive? from what you wrote, i'd say you have separate grub configs on each hdd, and it sounds like you loaded grub from the IDE drive, likely because the BIOS is set for IDE as priority hdd. if you change your bios to boot from your SATA drive, you should be able to access the IDE hard drive as a data drive, and not booting from it.
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