Dual Boot Problem

[Jim Cornette]

>I just tried "grub-install /dev/hda", but no luck. It gave me the
>error "/dev/hdb1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive". The only
>thing I can think of is that this is somehow related to the fact that
>I have a SATA drive on my system. I'm a crazy geek who has 4 hard
>drives running, 3 IDE and 1 SATA. Both Windows and Fedora are on IDE
>drives though, so I'm not sure whats going on.
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This sounds related to what Barry mentioned about the device.map
cat /boot/grub/device.map
puts out this information on my single disk laptop. What does the 
device.map file contain on your system.
 cat /boot/grub/device.map
# this device map was generated by anaconda
(fd0)     /dev/fd0
(hd0)     /dev/hda

What does fdisk -l output?
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        2111    16956576    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            2112        2124      104422+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3            2125        3399    10241437+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4            3400        4864    11767612+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5            3400        4674    10241406   83  Linux
/dev/hda6            4675        4805     1052226   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda7            4806        4864      473886    b  W95 FAT32

I'm sure that  with 3 IDE disks and the SATA, it should confuse anaconda 
a bit. Grub.conf would also give clues as to what failed to recognize 
the setup you have.

Jim

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