Hang - No grub boot screen

[ddan]

Greetings,

I installed a new 500GB drive and moved my 320GB to be my second drive. I'm installing Fedora 7 64 bit. Everything was working fine until I installed the new 500GB drive. Both are SATA drives. The install looks like it works okay, but will not boot. The last thing on the screen is "GRUB" and no grub boot screen appears. I have tried this three times with the same result. Maybe I have a bad drive or did something wrong installing the drive or have a configuration problem. The last time I installed with all the defaults. I used the recovery option and /boot does have files in it.

Does anything have any idea how to debug this problem?

Regards,
Dan

[bob]

Have you tried switching the boot order to see if you get the grub menu on the 320 drive? This is just a guess, nothing more, but since you had a mbr on the 320 gig drive the install may be confused about mbr/no mbr location. Simple solution (after using the manufacturer's test utilities to check that the drives are okay) would be to unplug the 'slave' drive and install Fedora completely on the 'master'. Once installed, you should be able to plug in the 'slave' drive and have Fedora recognize it properly.

[ddan]

The problem was in my BIOS settings. It was still trying to boot off the 320GB disc. The reason I was getting the "GRUB" message was because Fedora was once installed on this disc but was wiped out because I made it part of the LVM. I don't have experience with SATA discs and thought it worked like PATA discs the cable determines (cable select) which disc is the master, however it is the BIOS that determines this in SATA. This can be confusing since the installer seems to based on the cable postion.

Regards,
Dan

[ddan]

Many thanks Bob, you hit the problem on the head.

Regards,
Dan