[WBEL-users] Grub install on an IDE Hard Disk

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 11:24 -0500, Erick Perez wrote:
> Hi, i have a Dell poweredge (very old) server that only boots from
> SCSI hard disks. It uses WB3 respin 2.
> Now I added an IDE disk and everytime I boot i only get a "grub>"
>  command line. I think I have tried to reinstall the MBR portion
> without success. It seems that my Dell system is trying to boot from
> the IDEs first. I have no BIOS option to force boot from the SCSIs.
>  
> What is the procedure to move the bootloader to the IDE and then point
> to my /dev/sda5 to boot?
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boot from WBEL CD

'linux rescue' # add to boot command when you boot cd

chroot /mnt/sysimage

grub-install /dev/hda

Should be good to go

Craig