[Bug 486151] Re: grub-pc will not install grub to the mbr of an IDE slave drive

[sojourner]

I disconnected the IDE master and rejumpered the slave as master . installed jaunty to that drive with legacy grub and it boots and runs normal . reformated the drive and installed lucid daily live (amd64 desktop) of nov 28 . fails to boot  error mesage is "error: you need to load the kernel first "  returning to the menu and using e to edit and setting "set quiet=0 " then ctrl+x to boot I get 
booting a command list
  [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3400, size=0x3d9c20]
error: couldn't read file 
I tried this install twice using gparted to delete the partitions and reformating the drive, and then during install allowing the installer also to format the partitions , same result each time .
I then used the first lucid livecd from nov 16 . this had failed in the same way when the drive was set as slave with the original master present . this time it suceeded and boots noramly . also note that installs to SATA drives on the same box suceeded everytime once with kubuntu 10.04 and once on a different SATA with the lucid livecd of nov 16. hope this helps in sorting out the problem . If I can run further tests to help please ask .

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grub-pc will not install grub to the mbr of an IDE slave drive
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