Re: Error 21 accessing secondary hdd

[adrian15]

Vince Radice escribió:
> I am having a problem with grub not recognizing my secondary hdd.
>
> grub version 0.97
> I have not modified grub at all
> I have 2 hdd - a 200 gb and a 40 gb.  Because it is an older pc, I have 
> to use an PCI IDE controller to access the 200 gb drive as Fedora ( and 
> I believe grub) cannot run if there is a Drive Overlay Program 
> involved. 

If the BIOS cannot offer grub the drive as another grub device then you 
should consider trying the new ata driver for grub2 which it is 
experimental, I think. You can try asking in grub-devel mailing list for 
more info.

You know you can put a /boot folder in the bootable hard disk with the 
kernels from the other hard disk distribution and once the kernel is 
loaded the other hard disk will be accesible. It's a workaround that 
might solve your problem.


adrian15