On 09/27/2011 09:00 PM, JD wrote: > On 09/27/2011 05:19 PM, mickey wrote: >> F15 >> >> Setup F15 hard drive on a different computer /dev/sda and sent hard >> drive to a friend to put in his computer as /dev/sdb , behind WindowsXp >> and went into the rescue mode to run grub-install /dev/sda , getting a >> error message; >> >> "sdc2 Does not have any corresponding BIOS drive". >> >> There is only two hard drives and a DVDrom in this computer, I can't >> understand the sdc2 unless fedora see's this >> drive , slave hard drive as sdc2 instead of sdb2 , partition 2 is where >> the / partition is for Fedora. >> WindowsXP is on Master drive. >> >> >> Hard Drive is recognized by BIOS as a Slave sdb. >> >> I guess the Device map is different and causing problems, How do I fix >> this to get boot sector on /dev/sda >> >> Can the command grub-install --recheck /dev/sda fix the problem. > I thought you have to edit grub.conf so that > boot=/dev/sda<<<< Point this to correct drive like /dev/sdb > > splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz<<< Change this to correct > (hd1,0) as an example > hiddenmenu > default=0 > > title Fedora (2.6.39.3-1.fc14.i686) > root (hd0,1)<<<< Change this to (hd1,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39.3-1.fc14.i686 ro root=/dev/sdb > rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us LANG=en_US.UTF-8 nomodeset > initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.39.3-1.fc14.i686.img > > > Then you must fix /etc/fstab so that > /dev/sdb1 / ext3 defaults 0 0 > > ...etc. > Are you sure the (hd1,0) instead it should be (hd1,1) because linux / is at sdb2 . -- 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
