Here i go again, Linux what flavour?

[Mark]

Originally Posted by LeperousDust

Mark, i've set in the BIOS the only hard drive to boot from is the "first" sammy drive which i installed linux on, so would that be passed to the grub loader at all? Hmmm gonna crack the case open see what happens then i guess, loads of hassle though the sata connections are so badly designed, it infuriates me!

The problem here is that GRUB has it's own way of detecting hard disks which isn't the same as the BIOS, so what might be the first disk in the BIOS might be the second, third, fourth or whatever disk in GRUB, especially with so many different controllers in that system).

If fiddling with the connectors doesn't help, there are some commands you can from the LiveCD which should help track this down, but fiddling with MBRs is a task for when one is awake, especially if any of the disks contain data you might want to keep.

Incidentally, you can't blame Linux for this particular problem - Windows is prone to it as well.