RH 7.3 On Dell Precision 530N Workstation

["Dave Warchol" <Warchol@harthosp.org>]

Hello:
           I am building a workstation for a user, hardware is as
follows:
- Dual Xeon 2.8GHz
- 1GB PC800 400MHz 4x256 Rambus
- nVidia 32MB graphics (NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic))
- SCSI Controller (AIC-7892p u160/m)
- 18GB SCSI Hard Drive (FUJITSU MAN3184MP 5507UF) [/dev/hda]
- 120GB IDE Hard Drive (WDC WD1200JB-75 CRA0) [/dev/sda]
- Floppy [/dev/fd0]
- LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163 [/dev/hdc]
- NEC CD-RW NR-9100A [/dev/scd0]
- Network Device:  3c905C-TX/TX-M (Tornado)

When I first built the box, it had only a single hard drive, the SCSI,
no problem.  After adding the IDE drive, made sure that it it was
recognized in the BIOS and rebuilt the box, it was unbootable, the word
"GRUB" came up on the screen and the system just hung there.  This
happened whether I tried to install the system on either drive.  What
did eventually work was disabling the IDE drive in the BIOS,
re-installing the system to the SCSI.  Then, I enabled the IDE drive in
the BIOS, rebooting, the drive showed up ok in dmesg, and then fdisk and
mkfs'ing, creating the mount point and making the appropriate fstab
entry.  Rebooted  and everything seems to be ok.  Question is what do I
need to do differently to be able to have the process work completely
within RH install?  Where to look? There is a lot of information in the
reference manual relative to "BIOS-Related Limitations Impacting GRUB
and LILO", specifically talking about environments where there are:
- Mulitple IDE Drives,
- One IDE and one SCSI,
- Only SCSI Drives
- Making sure /boot resides below cylinder 1023.

There is also a note that says that Disk Druid as well as workstation
and server installations takes these limitations into account.  Any help
is most welcome, I will summarize (I know that I owe the list one at the
moment).

Thanks much,
Dave
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