On 09/28/2011 08:01 AM, mickey wrote: > 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. That is a wise decision. Good luck. -- 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
