CentOS - Nov 2010 - Grub, pata, and sata

I've just filed bug 0004634.  Grub won't install onto my pata drive now
that I have a sata drive installed.  This is grub 0.97 on CentOS5.5.
Has anyone else encountered this?  I'm guessing that I can always
install Fedora on hda, which should give me a working grub, but I was
hoping for something a little less involved.

Thanks,
Dave Mackay

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, David G. Mackay wrote:
> To: centos at centos.org
> From: David G. Mackay <mackay_d at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: [CentOS] Grub, pata, and sata
> 
> I've just filed bug 0004634.  Grub won't install onto my pata drive
now
> that I have a sata drive installed.  This is grub 0.97 on CentOS5.5.
> Has anyone else encountered this?  I'm guessing that I can always
> install Fedora on hda, which should give me a working grub, but I was
> hoping for something a little less involved.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Mackay
Is the PATA drive on your Primary Master connection?

If you use Gparted live CD or Parted Magic, how do those 
drives show up?

Regards,

Keith

2010/11/23 David G. Mackay <mackay_d at bellsouth.net>
> I've just filed bug 0004634.  Grub won't install onto my pata drive
now
> that I have a sata drive installed.  This is grub 0.97 on CentOS5.5.
> Has anyone else encountered this?  I'm guessing that I can always
> install Fedora on hda, which should give me a working grub, but I was
> hoping for something a little less involved.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Mackay
>
every time i reported this bug on some previous fedora versions, it was
closed with notabug:
"As mentioned in other bug reports, this isn't really a bug.
There's no way
for
the drive order to be consistently detected."

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458138

-- 
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On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 08:05 +0200, cornel panceac wrote:
> every time i reported this bug on some previous fedora versions, it
> was closed with notabug:
> "As mentioned in other bug reports, this isn't really a bug.
There's
> no way for
> the drive order to be consistently detected."
It's not a matter of drive order.  Grub simply will not install on hda.  

Even if the order were wrong it should still let me install.  If it was
installing on the wrong drive, that would be a separate issue.

Dave