On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 06:37 -0400, David Niemi wrote: > How do the drive assignments work in Grub? > > I have 4 hard drives in a computer: > hda - ntfs data disk > hdb - ntfs data disk > sda - FC3, Grub, used LVM default installation with SELinux > sdb - ntfs, WinXP > > During the install initially grub was going to be installed to hda which > I didn't want so I unplugged the 2 drives and installed with the 2 SATA > active. Because of this sda is hd0 in Grub and sdb is hd1. Once I > plugged the other 2 drives back in Grub wouldn't boot to WinXP. > > At the moment I change the boot priority to sdb in the bios to boot to > WinXP. This is the pertinent sections of my grub.conf: > ********************************* > title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > rhgb quiet > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img > title Other > rootnoverify (hd1,0) > chainloader +1 > ********************************* > I tried some Google searches, man grub, and fought with info grub to no > avail. > > How do I change the drive assignments to get Grub to point to the right > drive to boot WinXP also? Grub uses the same drive ordering as your BIOS. So you probably want to change hd0 references to hd2 and hd1 references to hd3. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
