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Re: [LUG] A new conundrum

 

On 13/04/11 21:15, Stephen Cutts wrote:
> On 13 April 2011 20:46, Stephen Cutts <stephen.cutts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Ever so slight issue with doing that Kevin, I'm hooked up via sata not IDE.
>>
> 
> Though it did give me the idea to unhook my hdd that was hooked up via IDE
> (which was purely just acting as file storage) et voila the ubuntu partition
> boots without a hitch.

In which case the most likely explanation is that the BIOS is set to
boot IDE before SATA and a partition on the IDE drive is marked as bootable.

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