Thanks. I ended up solving this as described below. My hd was being viewed as a scsi device, thus the confusion. What stumped me is that changing the location of the root FS caused some pain when my fstab was loaded. The boot process complained that the label for / was already in place. I changed my fstab to point to the device rather than use the label and everything loads fine. Now, I just need to return my bad external firewire for something that actually works :) Alejandro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete Nesbitt" <pete@xxxxxxxxx> To: <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 12:37 PM Subject: Re: Grub and a new HD > On November 10, 2003 11:26 pm, Alejandro Calbazana wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Just finished cleaning up a machine and installed RH 9 on it... Everything > > went well w/ the install but I am having some bad luck tonight. My > > external firewire drive, which I just bought, died on me (click, click, > > click...). I did manage to see that it was supported by the OS though :) > > That's reassuring! > > > > Now for the real problem (which is entirely unrelated).... > > > > With Grub as my boot manager, I seem to have some confusion with a 2nd HD. > > I did install w/ hdc as my cd-rom. After a successful install, I decided > > to swap out my cd-rom with a new HD and place my CD on a different IDE > > channel. This seems to have caused some confusion as I can not get an fdisk > > -l from my 2nd HD. Looking at the grub config file, I see that > > hdc=ide-scsi... This is not true. I am sure this is a hangover from the > > original installation. However, I don't know what to modify to get it > > running. Any help is appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Alejandro > > Hi, > That reference "hdc=ide-scsi" at the end of the line is an option for the > device. This is common for a cd burner (& others?), not sure why but they > seem to need to look like scsi devices. So that should reflect your cd-drive > and be at the end of the line beginning with 'kernel'. Looks like you may > need to change the reference from hdc to hdd or whatever is appropriate. > > Any changes you make in Grub take next boot, you don't need to run anything to > kick it into gear (like lilo). You could also try your changes during boot > (say it was having serious bootup issues) without changing the file. When > Grub flashes up, there are instructions at the bottom of the screen to access > an editor. It is a good thing to be familiar with. > > -- > Pete Nesbitt, rhce > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
