All drives use 'auto' on everything in the bios.
After making all the changes you recommend and issuing 'grub-install /dev/hda', it tells me
'/dev/hdd3 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive'.
Did I miss something?
here's what fdisk tells me now and the content of the few files that I have edited:
------------------------------ fdisk /dev/hda <p>
Disk /dev/hdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 150 heads, 63 sectors/track, 41346 cylinders Units = cylinders of 9450 * 512 = 4838400 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 991 4682553+ 1b Hidden W95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 * 991 41346 190680210+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
------------------------------ fdisk /dev/hdb <p>
Disk /dev/hdb: 46.1 GB, 46115758080 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 89355 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 85282 89346 2048287+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb2 1 50793 25599640+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hdb3 * 50793 85282 17382330+ 83 Linux
------------------------------ /boot/grub/device.map:
(fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hdb (hd1) /dev/hda
------------------------------ /etc/fstab:
LABEL=LINUX / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 none /proc sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb1 swap swap defaults 0 0
------------------------------ /boot/grub/grub.conf:
# 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 (hd0,2)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb2
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#
#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title WinXP
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
chainloader +1H.
So FC2 is on hdd3? Assuming that...
...master: hda slave1: nothing master2: dvd/cd slave2: hddrecommendations?
I still suspect grub is getting confused. May still want to check BIOS setting for hard drives. On some systems should be "LBA" or "OTHER" rather than "DOS". If that doesn't help, given that nothing is on IDE0 slave, easiest would be to move hdd to hdb. Assuming use of labels in / etc/fstab, should only have one Linux filesystem partition entry requiring no changes:
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
and for swap, change to
/dev/hdb1 swap swap defaults 0 0
grub.conf should then look something like:
# 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 (hd1,2)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda2
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title WinXP on hda2
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
and /boot/grub/device.map should have
hd0 /dev/hda hd1 /dev/hdb
Sooooo, boot to rescue mode (presumably - after HW change of 2nd HD from IDE0 slave to IDE1 slave and given assumption of / now on hdb3) and with /dev/hdb3 mounted on /mnt/sysimage, "chroot /mnt/sysimage", edit /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf and /boot/grub/device.map as above, (or adjusted for reality), and "grub-install /dev/hda" (may not really be necessary but could help). Reboot and hope for the best!
Good luck, Phil
--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
