Darrell Shively wrote:
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Hi David:
Um, I'm sure you already checked this but just in case: your BIOS couldn't still be booting from the RAID, could it? If so, then GRUB is looking at the /boot/grub stuff on the RAID rather than what's on your new IDE boot drive...
Cheers, - Darrell
Hi Darrell, I don't know about booting the BIOS from the RAID, but you're close: grub was reading the BIOS values that had been established at the initial installation, and the BIOS didn't see the new IDE hard drives as boot drives (although it saw them as IDE drives). For unrelated reasons, I reset the CMOS, and the drives reordered, with the IDE drives first. Everything is working. I think grub has a workaround that Andrew Halliwell pointed out is used in lilo -- you can remap the drives. I noticed this in the grub shell and didn't see the point of it, but I guess I do now. Messing with MBRs and boot problems used to give me sleepless nights (literally). The stuff that nightmares are made of -- gives me the creeps! Cheers, David