Re-installing GRUB on FC3

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-12-23 08:17, Pete Toscano whipped out a trusty #2 
pencil and scribbled:

> Dan,
>
> Thanks for looking into this.
>
> I thought about moving my hard drives from ide2 and ide3 to ide0 and 
> ide1, but I hesitate for two reasons:
>
> 1.  The normal FC3 install went fine with the drives in their current 
> positions and it ran some GRUB install command, so why can't I just 
> run that again?
>
> 2.  ide0 and ide1 are slower IDE interfaces, but ide2 and ide3 are 
> ata100.  Granted, it probably doesn't make much difference, but I'd 
> like to keep the potential there.

Just my $0.02:

I would disable the MB IDE in the BIOS setup.  I believe that would make 
your ATA100 card become ide0 and ide1.  Then, jumper your hard drives as 
one master and one slave, put them both on ide0.  Jumper your DVD drives 
as one master and one slave, put them both on ide1.  I suspect that will 
make everything work just fine. 

You might check things out by doing just a minimal install of FC3 onto 
hda.  Then, I would suggest you read: 
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html
for instructions on how to set up your partitions so that you install 
and boot Windows from the first drive, and modify your boot.ini file so 
you can put GRUB on the other drive to boot Linux.

-- 
Fritz Whittington
Let each man exercise the art he knows. (Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B.C.)

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