2008/1/25 Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Doctor Who wrote: > > I recently added another hard drive to my machine. Previously, I had > > 2 hard drives and Fedora was installed on one along with Vista. I > > installed grub to Fedora''s root and used a 3rd party boot loader to > > access Fedora and other distros. > > > > Now that the 3rd SATA drive is installed, Fedora's grub is messed up > > because it's not on the drive it thinks it is (different order to > > drives now). How can I go about 'fixing' Fedora's grub entry and > > re-installing grub to Fedora's root partition (not the MBR)? > > > > Thanks. > > > Probably the easiest way to to boot the rescue CD or the install > DVD/CD in the rescue mode, and have it mount your partitions. Then > edit your Grub configuration and run grub-install. (I am guessing > that you can not get to the Grub prompt because Grub is looking for > stage 1.5 in on the wrong drive.) If you are not using partition > labels, you will also have to edit /etc/fstab. > > For editing, and re-installing Grub, I like to chroot to the mount > point for the root file system. But if you are not using partition > labels, the rescue mode will have problems mounting /boot and > possible other partitions because the information in /etc/fstab will > point to the wrong drive. In that case, you will end up having to > mount at least some of the partitions by hand before you can fix things. > > I don't know your level of acknowledge, so ask about the steps you > need detailed explanations of. (or search the list) The different > steps have been covered more then once, but it isn't always easy to > find them. > > Mikkel I can boot into Fedora via grub from another Linux install. I assume that will make things easier (making the edits from within Fedora itself). Can someone outline the steps to find out what the grub (and fstab??) entries *should* be and the best (read Fedora-way) to change them? Thanks.
