I have been running RedHat 7.3 for some time. I
recently installed Fedora on a new hard drive.
Everything works great until I stick the old 7.3 boot
drive back into the box.
Regardless of where the drive is (hdc, hdd, etc) I get
the Fedora GRUB screen at boot. Once the system
starts booting, it uses the old 7.3 drive instead of
the Fedora drive.
If I disconnect the 7.3 drive, Fedora boots and
everything is fine again. I need to be able to boot
Fedora correctly and mount the old 7.3 drive to copy
files.
I would appreciate some ideas on what the problem is
and how to fix it.
Here is details about my configuration and what I have
tried:
-- The BIOS and the only boot hard disk is the Fedora
disc.
-- The BIOS shows each drive in the proper place (i.e.
the Fedora drive is the primary on the first IDE
channel.
-- When the boot loader starts it shows the Fedora
boot stuff from hda.
-- When the actual boot process starts, it always uses
the 7.3 drive unless it is disconnected. In that case
it boots from the Fedora drive.
Here is the grub.conf from the Fedora drive (hda):
---------------------------------
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making
changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This
means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to
/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro
root=/dev/hda1
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
password --md5 $1$iJ9LuhFJ$NH1513oi/K4fo79VPNpgl0
title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2135.nptl)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl ro
root=LABEL=/ rhgb
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl.img
title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro
root=LABEL=/ rhgb
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
----------------------------------
HERE is the grub.conf from the old 7.3 drive:
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# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making
changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This
means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to
/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro
root=/dev/hda1
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-24.7)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-24.7 ro
root=/dev/hda1
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-24.7.img
----------------------------------
The device.map file for both drives is the same:
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda
Thanks for your help!
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