keeping drives mounted `

[billhedrick]

I have a nice little home built machine and have accumulated 4 or 5 HD's for it. But my question is: How do I keep them mounted? I would like to restart and have them mount automatically.
Here's the layout:
IDE1
60GB
40GB
IDE2
80GB
SATA
200GB (with a partition of 60GB for Ultimate Edition)
External firewire
80GB - this will eventually be installed under IDE2

hmmm that's 5 additional drives.

[cowboy]

Well.....I have ran into problems with grub....so when I do a test on our OS....i do discounect all my hard dive except for the one I am installing on...
When I am finished reconnect them....
then i change them in the bios...a hassle but my other OS are not in danger...
Grub , the latest....will read your HD's now and you can do it when you get the grub menu....no need to go into the bios....

[billhedrick]

"latest" being grub 2.0?

[cowboy]

Yes.....and it is still buggy.....am testing 2.6....and almost did not get into windows.....and almost did not get into my 2.5 install.....but it did work after a reboot...
I do know what I am doing.....wait till it does become final...2.6 when it is ready will have it...

[billhedrick]

OK I think the standard grub on 2.5 is 1.9x so I don't have that

[billhedrick]

just rebooted, running grub 1.9.7, no obvious ways to change it in grub

[cowboy]

You can run grub 2.0 in Ubuntu 9.10, which is 2.5 in Ultimate Edition...google how to upgrade grub 2.0......now this can mess up your install plus the other OS you have installed on your other hard drives....disconnect the others before you even try.....am very serrious on this!!!.. on what you have found.....back-up data...and so forth.....I would wait....me....lol....nah..
If it messes up, it's your call....wait till 2.6 will be final

[billhedrick]

cowboy... be sure .... to leave...... enough......... periods for the rest of us...................................

[cowboy]

,,,,,,,,ok will use coma's then,,,,,,lol

[JOHNNYG]

I do agree with cowboy (To a point) If you are not familiar with the the way that grub2 installs then by all means DO disconnect your other drives, But that gets old ,Always, When installing a new nix choose "manual install" and this is What I have come to learn is # Write down your drives as named in Gparted, grub or bios, remember your default boot drive in bios (this is important) when installing a "new" "nix" "Do not install grub to that (Your default drive) drive (on your new install) At the end of the installation at the last screen there is a "Advanced" button click that and install the new grub to the drive you are installing to < exp. installing to sda5 <install grub to this drive, (You do this so that at any time if your default boot fails, You can go in to "bios " and boot from any installment !! after install, you must boot to your default boot drive and " sudo update-grub " then reboot to the new install, you must also do this with any kerrnal and or header updates, I am currently running 6 NIX's , Grub2 On Ext4 F/S and have no problem with anything but Ultimate Edition 2.6 Updates,(NOT the Fault of Ultimate Edition Or TheeMahn in any way !!) I really think they "SMOKE" There lunch at Canonical !!! Any who,at any "nix" Boot or makeyousoft bimbows you will be able to access any of your other hard drives via "Places" in your tool bar ! or at the " grub boot screen " !!! I hope this is what you are looking for ,And I hope it helps; If you have any questions or comments on this, Please post back as I am anxious to here from you !