On 09/27/2011 10:55 PM, JD wrote: > On 09/27/2011 07:18 PM, mickey wrote: >> On 09/27/2011 09:57 PM, JD wrote: >>> On 09/27/2011 06:45 PM, mickey wrote: >>>> 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 . >>> Well, the default correspondence between bios disks and linux disks >>> is >>> hd0 sda >>> hd1 sdb >>> >>> I assume your linux is installed on first partition of the disk. >>> Since the linux disk is the second disk in the machine, per your >>> message, then the disk is hd1 (i.e. /dev/sdb) >>> and since linux is on the first partition, the boot >>> disk would be >>> (hd1,0) which maps onto (/dev/sdb1) >>> >>> Take a look at the file /boot/grub/device.map >>> >>> which shows the most basic device mapping, like >>> (fd0) /dev/fd0 >>> (hd0) /dev/sda >>> >>> Good luck >>> >> I guess i got this pretty confusing. >> sdb1 is a ntfs file system for a backup to windowsXP. >> And sdb is / root for linux > sdb is the WHOLE disk. > sdb1 is partition one on sdb > Therefore it is not possible to have > sdb as the linux root file system, and > sdb1 as the ntfs backup of windows. > > I suspect that sdb1 is your ntfs backup > and sdb2 is your linux root file system. > > JD thanks for your help. But I have decided that I'am going to walk my friend through a complete new install, that way he will learn how to do it in the future. That way also Linux can do the proper detection settings on his computer. -- 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
