[plug] grub not booting

[Trent Lloyd]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 04:40:07PM +0800, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> 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???

at what point was it stated he would change the jumpers?

and there is no 'master location', unless your using a twisted cable
like on a floppy (known as Cable Select)
> 
> 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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