On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 13:18, Gary Cote wrote: > Hey all, > > I recently swapped my disks around. I moved my boot drive from /dev/hdb > to /dev/hda (same drive, just its place on the cable). Now, when the > system boots, it loads the grub> prompt and waits for further input. > How do I get it to load the grub menu? > > My /boot/grub directory and grub.conf file are below. You'll note that > menu.lst is a soft-link to grub.conf, as seems to be typical. > > The only other thing of note is that, as I swapped the drive around, > I found it necessary to boot from a grub floppy, then reinstall grub > on the hard drive (using the grub setup command). That may or may not > be relevant. > > Anything else look funny here? > > - gary > > > > > [root@localhost grub]# ll > total 228 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 101 Aug 19 08:11 device.map > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10848 Aug 21 18:44 e2fs_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9776 Aug 21 18:44 fat_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8864 Aug 21 18:44 ffs_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 602 Sep 20 08:53 grub.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11072 Aug 21 18:44 jfs_stage1_5 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Aug 19 08:11 menu.lst -> > ./grub.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9280 Aug 21 18:44 minix_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12512 Aug 21 18:44 reiserfs_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7985 Sep 6 2002 splash.xpm.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Aug 21 18:44 stage1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130340 Aug 21 18:44 stage2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8576 Aug 21 18:44 vstafs_stage1_5 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12552 Aug 21 18:44 xfs_stage1_5 > > > [root@localhost grub]# cat grub.conf > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > # root (hd1,0) > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb6 > # initrd /initrd-version.img > #boot=/dev/hda > default=0 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-19.7) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-19.7 ro root=/dev/hda6 hdd=ide-scsi > ----- seems to me that you have to change grub.conf to (hd1,0) and you would need to grub-install /dev/hda Craig -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
