this isn't a problem with grub, it's the /etc/fstab configuration most
likely, you can change the LABEL=/ and LABEL=/boot in the fstab to
/dev/hda1 or whatever and that should work, or you can boot in rescue mode
(of the installation CD) and relabel the extra disk
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Michael wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I'm upgrading a fileserver running 3.4 (upgrade to a larger disk). I backed
> up the data from the "old" disk and slapped in a newer, larger disk and
> installed Centos-3.4. No problems.
>
> Now, there are some files on the "old" disk that I forgot to move to the
> back-up disk, so I'd like to mount the "old" disk as /dev/hdd and reboot the
> system and transfer the files [hdd (old disk) --> hda (new disk)].
>
> However, the old disk still has Grub on the MBR and when I boot, the system
> tries to mount the "/boot" and "/" partitions from BOTH disks! I get errors
> about duplicate partitions and that those dups won't get mounted.The
> fileserver does boot but with a configuration combination of both systems.
>
> Question: Grub is correctly installed and configured on hda. How do I get
> the boot process to ignore the old disk (and MBR) on hdd???
>
> I tried google but I can't seem to find this fix.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael Chinn
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