Re: [gentoo-user] Grub on a new disk

[Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net>]

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On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 12:18:28 +0100
Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As far as I can understand the problem arises because you have
> installed grub everywhere.  When your BIOS kicks in it goes to the
> first disk's MBR, reads the GRUB boot code, which starts probing each
> and every device where a GRUB file system exists.  Perhaps it also
> checks each MBR?  Eventually it arrives at /dev/hdd and GRUB loads up
> its boot menu.  You can tweak the /boot/grub/device.map file to
> change the order of the devices and bring up /dev/hdd sooner.
> 
> Alternatively and probably easier would be to change the boot order
> of your drives in your BIOS menu.  Since you have installed GRUB in
> each drive's MBR you should be able to boot straight off your hdd
> drive.
> 
> HTH.

I think I've already written that I've installed Grub on every disk
because I didn't know whether the BIOS allows booting from secondary
slave and I didn't want to risk an unbootable system.
I've already changed the BIOS boot order to look at /dev/hdd's MBR
first but that didn't help.

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