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SubjectRe: Drives missing at boot
Mark Knecht wrote (ao):
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On some machines changing from IDE to AHCI messes up the boot order
> > selection in the BIOS - you may have to switch to AHCI, save settings,
> > reboot, go back into the BIOS and then make sure the disk boot order
> > settings are correct (whatever drive grub is installed on needs to be
> > first).
>
> That's a very interesting idea Robert. Thanks.
>
> I'll have to be careful. I have 5 identical drives in the machine so
> figuring out which is which when I'm in BIOS might be a bit of a
> trick.
>
> I'll give it a go and report back.

You can install grub on the mbr of all disks and not worry about the
order. Especially if you work with UUIDs.

Sander

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