[plug] grub not booting

[Jon L. Miller]

Once the old drive is removed the drive is moved to the master location
on the cable and the jumper is changed to make the drive a master
drive.  So do I still have a /dev/hdb?  I don't think so???

JLM
On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 16:00, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> Jon,
> 
> > Question, if the changes made to the /etc/fstab; /boot/grub/menu.lst
> > reflects the system on hdb, doesn't that change when the old drive is
> > removed.  In other words since /dev/hda is removed does this change
> > /dev/hdb to /dev/hba?
> 
> The drive will still be called /dev/hdb, (which grub calls hd1). If
> you remove the primary master, then the BIOS should generally choose
> to boot off the primary slave (depends on the BIOS), but it will
> still be called /dev/hdb by linux.
> 
> > Also does anyone understand the settings in Grub? this system isn't
> > rebooting.
> 
> What isnt happening when it reboots? Grub should write to the screen
> "stage1" and "stage2" as it progress, similar to how lilo does the
> L-I-L-O thing. What comes up?
> 
> The example menu.lst file that comes with grub is farily informative
> for most purposes. (After you've installed it that is).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bernard.
> 
> 
> -- 
>  Bernard Blackham
>  bernard at blackham.com.au
>  Australian Linux Technical Conference 2003: http://conf.linux.org.au/
> 
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