[email protected] wrote: Snip > # grub-install --recheck /dev/sdc3 > Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device > > > I unplugged all but the root drive and it boots perfectly. Progressively > replugging all the drives seems to have random results. There is one IDE > drive and three SATA, one of which is the rood drive and another one is in > a caddy. I have had as many as two of the four extra drives running but > can't get them all to go at once. > > I'm beginning to think it's a BIOS/motherboard problem. > > I've just rebooted again with only the boot drive plugged in. > Just a thought, but some BIOSes have trouble mixing SATA and IDE drives (Mine - Athalon64 Gigabyte board - is an example). One option to try if the boot drive is SATA then physically set the IDE drive to slave. It should then be moved to the end of the list. Most older BIOSes check for IDE drives first then look for SATA drives so it is not a great idea to mix the two.
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