install boot sector

[mickey]

On 09/27/2011 09:00 PM, JD wrote:
> On 09/27/2011 05:19 PM, mickey wrote:
>> F15
>>
>> Setup F15 hard drive on a different computer /dev/sda and sent hard
>> drive to a friend to put in his computer as /dev/sdb , behind WindowsXp
>> and went into the rescue mode to run grub-install /dev/sda , getting a
>> error message;
>>
>> "sdc2 Does not have any corresponding BIOS drive".
>>
>> There is only two hard drives and a DVDrom in this computer,  I can't
>> understand the sdc2 unless fedora see's this
>> drive , slave hard drive as sdc2 instead of sdb2 , partition 2 is where
>> the / partition is for Fedora.
>> WindowsXP is on Master drive.
>>
>>
>> Hard Drive is recognized by BIOS as a Slave sdb.
>>
>> I guess the Device map is different and causing problems, How do I fix
>> this to get boot sector on /dev/sda
>>
>> Can the command  grub-install --recheck /dev/sda fix the problem.
> I thought you have to edit grub.conf so that
> boot=/dev/sda<<<<  Point this to correct drive like /dev/sdb
>
> splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz<<<  Change this to correct
> (hd1,0) as an example
> hiddenmenu
> default=0
>
> title Fedora (2.6.39.3-1.fc14.i686)
>           root (hd0,1)<<<<  Change this to (hd1,0)
>           kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39.3-1.fc14.i686 ro root=/dev/sdb
> rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us LANG=en_US.UTF-8 nomodeset
>           initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.39.3-1.fc14.i686.img
>
>
> Then you must fix /etc/fstab so that
> /dev/sdb1 /     ext3    defaults        0 0
>
> ...etc.
>
Are you sure the (hd1,0) instead it should be (hd1,1) because linux / is 
at sdb2 .