Ubuntu
grub package

  1. Bug #30967
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 30967

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Rick DeNatale (rick-denatale) wrote :

No, the MBR was installed on the correct (SCSI) disk. It was /boot/grub/menu.lst which was generated incorrectly by the install.

I don't buy that most machines will always boot from IDE first and SCSI second. If that were true it would be impossible to boot from SCSI if an IDE drive was bootable.

On my machine setting the BIOS to boot from SCSI makes that SCSI drive the first drive in the boot list, and therefore hd0 in grub terminology.

As far as I can determine grub hdn is the nth drive in the BIOS boot list using zero origin indexing.

If the installer DID install an MBR on a drive which wasn't the target of the install, I think that it would be a serious error.