sean darcy wrote: > I have an old F9 production remote server. I put in a new hard disk - > sdb - and installed F12. > > I want to be able to boot from sda to both my old trusted F9 and the new > F12. > > But now booting to F12 fails, can't find the files. > > sdb is partitioned with ext3 for /boot - sdb1 and the rest is LVM for /. > All done by anaconda on the install. > > When I boot to F9, I can mount sdb1 and see the grub folder. But if I > got to grub, find fails to see the grub folder on sdb1: > > grub> find /grub/device.map > find /grub/device.map > (hd0,0) > > But, weirdly, if I cp device.map to the top folder on sdb1, grub does > see it: > > grub> find /device.map > find /device.map > (hd1,0) > > Grub gets the geometry right: > > geometry (hd1) > drive 0x81: C/H/S = 9726/255/63, The number of sectors = 156250000, /dev/sdb > Partition num: 0, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > Partition num: 1, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x8e > > I've fsck'd sdb1. > > Any help appreciated. I'm clueless. > > sean > > Take a look at your grub config file on your boot disk, which I assume is sda1. The entry for F12 has to point to sdb1 for the F12 files. Grub nows nothing about the config files on the non-boot drive. It has to find all it needs to know on the boot drive. Mark -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
