XPost: alt.os.linux.mageia   
   From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:11:15 -0800, VWWall wrote:   
   > I recently installed Mageia-2, and had a problem with getting it to   
   > boot.  I have two hard drives, and Mageia was seeing them in reverse   
   > order from that of the other installations.   
   >   
   > Running fdisk -l shows what order they are placed.  Mageia even got it   
   > wrong in its own menu.lst, putting "hd1.10" for the "/" directory, which   
   > was not the drive/partition on which it installed the root.   
   >   
   > Changing hd1,10 to hd0,10 fixed the problem.   
   >   
   > I made no changes to the BIOS at any time.   
      
   In my case, it was the BIOS. I reset it back to defaults, disabled   
   safe boot, told it to use legacy OS mode, and was able to boot hd1 as   
   defined during install.   
      
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