Re: [PLUG] IDE drive preventing grub from loading

[Aaron Mulder <ammulder@alumni.princeton.edu>]

If you boot from a LiveCD does it go OK and see the drives?

Thanks,
        Aaron

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Art Alexion <art.alexion@gmail.com> wrote:
> I gave up on this problem a few months ago and decided to give it a
> try again today.
>
> I have a computer with a motherboard without IDE slots.  I had a very
> old PCI-IDE card that worked for a while, but it stopped.  I replaced
> it.  and ever since, my system won't boot with the IDE drives plugged
> in.  The PCI card's BIOS seems to recognize them OK, but I just get a
> blinking cursor after POST when they are plugged in.  If I unplug
> them, everything is fine.
>
> I am thinking the boot process is looking for grub there and can't find it.
>
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