Sounds like a boot order issue.  Check BIOS.

On 8/16/10, Paul Johnston <[email protected]> wrote:
> OLD BOX:  Win2K and Red Hat dual-booted on a IDE drive
> NEW BOX:  WinXP and Ubuntu (now 10.04) dual-boot, each OS on its' own
> SATA drive.  Of course, GRUB handles the boot choices.
>
> I wanted to pull some files off the old IDE drive, so I connected it to
> the legacy IDE port on the motherboard.  When I powered up this new
> hardware configuration, I was surprised when the GRUB screen asked me to
> choose between Win2K and Red Hat Linux.  GRUB preferred the IDE drive to
> the two SATA drives.
>
> How do I configure GRUB to prefer the SATA drives over the old IDE
> drive?
>
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