At this time F7 is booted and from that I used fdisk to find the
hard drive with F7 64 bit. As you can see it finds all the partitions as
/dev/sdf.
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdf: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdf1 1 1000 8032468+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdf2 1001 1141 1132582+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdf3 * 1142 2500 10916167+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdf4 2501 19457 136207102+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdf5 2501 2585 682731 83 Linux
mount -t ext3 /dev/sdf3 /fc4
[root@k5di ~]#
[root@k5di ~]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 39674192 11689048 25937260 32% /
tmpfs 484484 0 484484 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda7 14832416 8021112 6057860 57% /home
/dev/sda6 108865 28993 74251 29% /boot
/dev/sdf3 10574036 3867712 6160516 39% /fc4
[root@k5di ~]#
Note the last entry in df. That is /dev/sdf3 mounted on this computer
which is /dev/sda5.
I used fdisk and mount and df, three tools to show you what a hard
drive has. No one can say that /dev/sdf doesn't exist on my computer.
Some say the /dev/sdf3 is just a designator of a partition on a hard
drive. To this I say there is nothing else! I can mount the designator
and I discover it is a partition.
Next I must turn off this computer and come up with the rescue CD so
that neither computer is boot up. In this case with fdisk I found both
hard drives have changed. The hard drive that had been /dev/sdf is now
dev/sda. The one which had been /dev/sda is now /dev/sdb. How did this
happen?
Finally I boot up the computer on /dev/sdf3 and it becomes /dev/sda.
To my surprise I am booting it from /dev/sdb and not /dev/sdf. Here is
what my grub.conf looks like.
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,5)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.fc7)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda5 quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.22.9-91.fc7.img
title Fedora (2.6.22.7-85.fc7)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.7-85.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda5 quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.img
title Fedora (2.6.22.5-76.fc7)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.5-76.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda5 quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.22.5-76.fc7.img
title Fedora f7-64
rootnoverify (hd1,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1
Now if it seems to you that I do not understand what is happening
then I got the message across.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
