On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 09:02 -0700, Hans Horn wrote: > 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? Apparently, but I fail to see it. There's obviously still a reference to hdd somewhere. ??? > > 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 Pretty odd partition table. Start block of each partition should generally be one greater than the end block of the previous one, but have seen cases where they are the same - apparently the partitions are not on cylinder boundaries - possibly problematic. The first partition generally starts at the beginning of the disk with cylinder 1, again odd but not necessarily illegal. > ------------------------------ > /boot/grub/device.map: > > (fd0) /dev/fd0 > (hd0) /dev/hdb > (hd1) /dev/hda This should be: (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hda (hd1) /dev/hdb But don't see how that gets hdd into the picture. > > ------------------------------ > /etc/fstab: > > LABEL=LINUX / ext3 defaults 1 1 This is inconsistent with the entry "root=LABEL=/" in grub.conf below. use "tune2fs /dev/hdb3 to see what the real entry is. I would expect Filesystem volume name: / not LINUX as fstab indicates. > 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) This should be (hd1,2) after change to device-map. > 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 +1 > > ... > > 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! After the chroot, fix the above anomalies as best you can and try again. If that fails, then try a manual approach (after recovery boot and chroot): # grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map Then at the grub> prompt: grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 It should return: (hd1,2) Exit grub and repeat without the device-map: # grub grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 If it returns other than (hd1,2) then the BIOS mapping does not match that seen on the running system. If it does match, then: grub> root (hd1,2) grub> setup (hd0) Exit and try a reboot. Just read you other posts... On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 09:42 -0700, Hans Horn wrote: > fixed the mount hdd3 thingy by invoking /etc/rc.sysinit, which gets me > into > rw mode. Ahh - was the old /etc/mtab! > > now grub-install is happy. > > however, after reboot, all I get is 'GRUB' > > cluelessly, > H. If all the above fails it may be time to re-install with the new hardware configuration. :-( Phil
