--- "der.hans" wrote: > In all cases when the original drives was in it was on SATA1 with 2-4 > being the other on board SATA connectors. > > Could I dd the first 512 bytes off the original drive onto one of the new > drives and have any hope that the system would actually boot off the new > drive? I wouldn't expect that to help. If grub-install and setup from the grub prompt don't write that 512 bytes, then I would think you have a more serious problem. Shouldn't hurt anything to try it. > Maybe I should just hit them all. > for i in `seq 0 2`; do grub-install hd${i},0; done My memory is short, did you say you also tried grub-install to sda, besides sda1 or whatever other partition you're using? ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss