This is a complete newbie question...hope the following is clear... I have 3 hds win2k is on hd0 rh9 is/was on hd1 dual booting them was fine. the third hd, hd2, is/was new. However, while installing rh9 on hd2 (don't ask: ...I am gonna put rh7.3 on hd1, but wanted to preserve rh9 on hd1 until ready to do that), hd1 info got wiped. And for some reason, sdd3 (swap partition i created, is not being recognized (nor is sdc3, also a swap partition). how? ok, so i used the rh9 rpms to install onto hd2 and when it comes time to create partitions: I UNclick sdb (win2k) and sdc (the old rh9), but check to format all partitions and install a rh9 on sdd (hd2, a much larger drive) is this clear so far? on the next screen or so, when creating new partitions, i make sure that every reference to sdb and sdc are unchecked and that under the partitions on sdc the radio buttons *leave unchanged* are clicked. Note: for some reason sdc3 swap partition appears with a check-mark in the *format* column. When the *leave unchanged* radio button is clicked for this partition, this disappears (the *leave unchanged* radio buttons on the other partitions are, by default, already clicked) ... When it comes time to configure grub, grub sees only 2 drives, sdb and sdd2. I add sdc2 from the pull-down menu. On bootup, tho all 3 drives are listed (tho hd1 is misconfigured), i can only boot into hd0 and hd2. Grub has misconfigured sdc2, titling it as if it were a windows drive (got error 13). I edit grub sdc to reflect its linux volumes (by the way, the info grub has on sdd2 show root=LABEL=/1 rather than /dev/sdd1). I did this after querying grub to see what volumes showed up, and since linux showed up, i figured all ok. but when i boot into it, it resembles hd2. all old data completely wiped. Actually the story is longer, but the main idea is there -- i don't want to wipe out data the next time i format/install rh on a disk, which is what i am gonna do after i send this off... to repeat in a less succinct way: Fortunately this overwrite is ok, as i backed up the files (except for my bookmarks -- wahh ;P), but, when i go to put rh7.3 on hd1, i don't want to wipe out rh9 (now on hd2). That is, how to Not have rh install affect partitions on another drive -- what else was there to do? fdisk? argh. What about what to do using gui??? What did i leave out? thanks for any info... -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
