[mythtv-users] Grub problem - or I have a special place in my version of hell reserved for Seagate

[Simon Hobson]

Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:

> But it won't add the disk to the bios boot-order!

Indeed. The feature to pick an order for the disks is useful at times, but "annoying" when you forget about it and do something like this.

> Many modern bioses have the option to try any other device on failing
> on all listed devices.

This doesn't

> As long as you do not have a bootable CD/DVD or USB stick inserted, ...

Ha ha. Only yesterday, someone was recalling a tale from one of the customers at work a few years ago. The on-call engineer had to get up early, and drive 30 miles to their site to deal with an emergency. He got there around 6am, found various people (including irate senior managers) in an agitated group stood around the server that wouldn't boot.
Our guy walks in, pops out the DVD (some video !) and boots it.

That's caught so many people out, so many times, then it's one of the first things we ask people. These days it's often USB disks used for backups.