Resending message because of spell check changing HDA > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Otto Haliburton > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 7:54 AM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: boot hdb? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] > > On Behalf Of Martin J. Stumpf > > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 7:28 AM > > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: boot hdb? > > > > Greg, > > > > Assuming you have both drives in your box and you have just installed > > RH9 onto hdb and your goal is as stated which I read to mean that you > > want to make hdb the primary installation and boot off of it. > > > > Option one: Change the boot order in BIOS if possible. (most new BIOS > > can do this) > > 1. Boot into grub on your current hda and then install grub onto hdb's > > mbr. > > 2. Go into your BIOS at boot and change the boot order of the hard > drives. > > 3. Now your old hda will be hdb but at boot, grub should load your RH9 > > as expected. > > Note: this assumes that your grub.conf if already correct for the new > > installation. > > > > Option two: Dual boot off two hd's > > 1. Boot into grub off of hda. > > 2. edit the config file <e at the grub screen> such that you can boot > > off of hdb. > > 3. This might look like: > > map (hd1) (hd0) > > root (hd1, 2) # assuming that your boot partition is the third > > partition > > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 > > initrd /initrd.img > > 4. If this works then permanently edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file > > > > HTH, > > > > -Martin > > > > > > g whitley mott wrote: > > > > >goal: replace hda (with a bigger drive) > > >limits: no floppy, no cd burner > > > > > >how do i do it? > > > > > >rh9 is running on hdb. grub boots off hda, of course, so when i > replace > > >hda, i'll lose my mbr. > > > > > >i have at hand a set of rh7.2 cd's. but even having booted the rescue > > >cd, i don't see how then to boot into my working rh9 partition on hdb. > > > > > >i can invoke grub while on the rescue cd. it can install an mbr. but > > >if i try to set root to (hd1,2), and install an mbr, i just get > > >something about wrong cylinder size or some such message when i try to > > >boot. > > > > > >with grub running on the rescue cd, i can load the configfile from my > > >rh9 partition on hdb. but it won't let me just go and boot. that's > all > > >i really want to do. how do i do it? > > > > > >tia, > > >greg > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Martin J. Stumpf > > Division of Medical Imaging Physics, Department of Radiology > > Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine > > 601 North Caroline Street / JHOC 4230 > > Baltimore, Maryland 21287-0855 USA > > Voice: (410) 614-0115 Fax: (410) 614-9979 > > > > Actually it is very simple. Don't worry about temporarily losing your mbr. Install whatever on HDA as normal with it's boot, which will create a mbr. Use the boot disk that you are going to create before starting this process boot and reinstall grub on HDA and guess what you will be where you started. > > > > -- > 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
