I have 2 hard drives and this has caused some problems now
understood. Here is what happened.
Day 1: I turned off the IDE drive with this F7 and loaded F7-64 onto the
new SATA drive. I let grub set up on the F7-64 so I could be sure to get
it at least fully loaded. This worked and when it was up (without a
pointer) I got a Terminal open and using fdisk I found that the SATA
drive was at /dev/sda and the IDE was at /dev/sdb.
Tried many grub things but none seemed to work. Don't recall but I
did get grub so confused it could not find a hard drive :-) So then I
got the SATA drive unplugged and rebooted but still a problem. Then from
a rescue cd I redid the proper grub intonation and the IDE drive booted up.
Day3: The SATA drive was plugged back in and when it came up the IDE
drive was still /dev/sda. Looked for SATA and it is at /dev/sdf now. No
reason known for this. I mounted the SATA on this computer and adjusted
grub.conf and fstab to be at /dev/sdf and this is done.
LABELS: The SATA F7-64 uses labels and they are a real pain! I am trying
to get them understood and it is hard. I guess label's are good after
everything is working.
Next I am going to want to chainload the grub on the F7-64 on the
SATA drive, from the grub on the IDE drive. This should be easy but I
need to set up the grub on the SATA drive proper. I am going to try and
get both the root and the setup to be /dev/sdf 3 and then chainload that.
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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
