Karl Larsen wrote: > For several years I have let the anaconda loader put the grub boot > message in the spot for such things on /dev/hda/. Fine, a couple of > years later I bought a much bigger hard drive and this Linux is on that. > But Grub is still using /dev/hda/. > > These are both Western Digital hard drives and I have had good luck > with them. But the first to fail will be the oldest I expect. When that > happens Grub will fail. This is a real hard thing to fix :-( > > So I have a plan. First read "Info Grub" and see how to put a Grub > boot in the boot section of /dev/hdb/. This I think is pretty simple. I > can do this today. But how to cause the file /boot/grub/grub.conf to use > this new boot point may be difficult. > > Assuming this is possible I will let the list know. I think you need to distinguish between the grub loader proper, and the grub support files in /boot . You can put either on either (or both) disks. But if the loader is in the sdb/hdb MBR you'll have to tell the BIOS to look there. By default it will look in the sda/hda MBR. I presently have /boot on sdb, and copies of the grub loader on sda and sdb, in case something nasty happens to the rather old sda. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
