I see what you were after. During the system boot the new IDE controller detects
the drive. It's later on during the boot process (after grub loads which is
called by the MBR)...
slug@nks.net wrote:
> > Thanks for the help but this has nothing to do with the MBR. Once I take out
the
> > ide2 comments from the grub.conf the system boots fine...
>
> The dog I was chasing is: is the drive bootable, if so is the BIOS
> having trouble finding it?
> I have no idea how to tell if a bios can boot from an added controller,
> I assume the bios extension on the added controller card takes care of it.
> Is the drive bootable when on a mommy board controller?
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