On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 06:19, 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. You have duplicate disk labels. Use tune2fs to relabel one of them. (Make sure to fix /etc/fstab if you relabel your current one.) > > 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 device.map file for both drives is the same: > > (fd0) /dev/fd0 > (hd0) /dev/hda > > Thanks for your help! > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 > http://search.yahoo.com/top2003 > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
