Karl Larsen wrote: > 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. Why do you keep changing your drives? Surely it would be better to leave the 2 drives alone, and try to work out what is happening.
