On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 17:39 +0100, Pedro Bezunartea Lopez wrote: > I have a strange problem with grub. I had fedora installed on a SATA > drive, 7th partition. I started to have problems with the disk so I got a > new one. I forgot to buy the SATA cable so, for a few days I replaced the > bad disk with the new one, doing a fresh install, this time on the 5th > partition. No problems there. Then, when I connected both disks at the > same time a strange boot problem appeared. > > The symptom is that hd0 is sdb and hd1 is sda. This has taken me a while > to figure out. I even did a new clean installation with both disks > connected. The installation took sda as the new disk and sdb as the old > one, as expected, but when I tried to reboot, the word "GRUB" filled the > screen and it did not boot. You, now, have two SATA drives plugged in at the same time? For interest's sake, what happens if you swap their data connectors around? I would have expected something like that to be the solution. -- Test running FC6 & FC5, and still using FC4. I delete all private mail, unseen. I read from the list. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
