Thanks, David. Your suggestions worked perfectly! --- David Eduardo Gomez Noguera <davidgn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 08:19, Jeff Anderson wrote: > > 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: > > > > ---------------------------------- > > # 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 problem is the LABEL thingy > I am betting your partitions on redhat 7.3's hard > disk had also been > labeled. > Change your "fedora grub.con" file to name > partitions explicitly (on the > kernel line). > Also, do the same for your /etc/fstab on your fedora > system, as that may > cause problems too. > > Hope that fixes your problem. > > PS. The grub.conf file on your redhat 7.3 system is > not being read > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003
