Nice suggestion. I pulled the RAID card, and moved the remaining SATA card from SATA4 to SATA1. I then was able to successfully install Mandriva Linux (quickest distro to test) with no grub startup problems.
By proceeding step-by-step with reinstalling the RAID card, I should be able to figure out whether having the SATA main drive not on SATA1 or the RAID card broke it, and hopefully get a multi-drive system running without having to purchase another SATA compatible drive. Thanks Jeff -----Original Message----- >From: David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Oct 29, 2006 9:14 PM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems > >On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:02:43 -0500 (GMT-05:00) >Jeff Cranmer wrote: > >> The Bios drive order appears to be correct. The 250MD SATA drive is >> top of the hard drive order list, and I'm stumped. >> >> Jeff > >Perhaps simplifying the environment might help diagnose the problem. >Have you considered disconnecting all drives except the boot >drive ... ??? >-- >gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
