On Fri, 2005-22-07 at 19:32 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > --- David Niemi <drn_temp2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > >> > - edit the /boot/grub.grub.conf to refer to > > (hd2,0) > > > >> > - issue grub commands: > > > >> > GRUB> root (hd2,0) > > > >> > GRUB> setup (hd2) > > > > > > Not sure if this is relevant, > > > but I had a similar problem on a machine with two > > SCSI disks > > > and a large IDE disk which I had added for > > archiving. > > > FC-4 seemed to give my IDE disk precedence, > > > although the BIOS looked at my SCSI disk first. > > > > > > My problem was solved just by saying > > > > > > grub-install --recheck /dev/sda > > > > > > However, this may not be relevant to your > > situation. > > On Fri, 2005-15-07 at 17:38 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: > > > Check the mapping of drives in > > /boot/grub/device.map > > > > > Thanks for the responses last week but I've been > > unable to follow up till > > now. > > > > The device.map is from the FC3 installation which > > lists hd0,0 whereas the find > > /grub/grub.conf finds it on (hd2,0). When I ran the > > above commands (root & > > setup) things worked fine but I still end up with > > the system halting at GRUB > > when I try booting from the HD. I had changed the > > grub.conf file to refer to > > the (hd2,0) instead of (hd0,0) > > > > So it isn't finding the /grub/grub.conf? Now what > > should I try? > > Look for /boot/grub/grub.conf. This is usually how it > is named. The other "/grub/grub.conf" seems weird > unless named by user. Antonio: >From the grub prompt, grub sees the /boot/grub/grub/conf as coming from (hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf. It's a function of how grub refers to partitions and drives, since the whole file system isn't mounted, the first partition isn't mounted under /boot so the file system on the first partition only contains a grub sub directory. Confusing, yup!
