Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jul 2010 13:26:50 +0200 | From | Sander <> | Subject | Re: Drives missing at boot |
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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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