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Re: Problems with booting SL6: Grub hangs
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Scott Nelson <[log in to unmask]>
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Scott Nelson <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:12:11 -0600
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On Jan 17, 2011, at 7:56 AM, Robert E. Blair wrote:

> You might check the bios settings.  Often you can choose which device it
> takes as the first HD to boot from.  It might not be sda.  You may need
> to reinstall the bootsector with "grub-install /dev/sda" as well or instead.

Thanks.  As it turned out, it was my BIOS settings.  This was a fresh install on a new computer so I really didn't think that would have been the problem, but it was.  It had my second hard drive as the one to boot first. *sheesh*

Scott

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