Hummm,
I have (so far) tended to use an IDE drive at /dev/hda for system and grub.
I did boot from SATA on our server in Aberdeen (while I was benchmarking it)
and had great fun trying to install grub on anything that wasn't /dev/hda!!
When I finally got it installed on /dev/sda, I had the same BIOS trouble.
If you're adding a SATA drive to store data (ie to use as /home or something)
then you shouldn't have an issue.
Cheers,
Tim B.
On Saturday 15 December 2007 09:50, Peter Salisbury wrote:
> Just a heads up for those who will be getting a shiny new SATA disk
> for Christmas!
>
> I opened my present early and tried to install a new SATA drive in
> with my existing IDE drives. GRUB went into a sulk and wouldn't boot
> the system. Turns out this is a known and nasty problem which is to
> do with the enumeration and naming of the drives. BIOS, GRUB and
> kernel all have different opinions on the matter. In my case the BIOS
> thinks any SATA drive must be number 1 in the list even though I'm
> booting from an IDE drive. This varies from BIOS to BIOS (of course!)
>
> SO: if you get GRUB complaining about an unreadable disk when you have
> a mix of SATA and PATA drives you too can join the fun Christmas
> party game of 'Guess the GRUB root drive designation'!
>
> LOTS of further details and (yukky) workarounds at
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/8497
>
> ATB, Peter
