<span style="font-family: georgia;">Please read below:</span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Karl Larsen</b> <<a href="mailto:k5di@zianet.com">k5di@zianet.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Excalibur Xcalibur wrote:<br>> Hi All,<br>> This is a rather unusual situation. I have a server running
<br>> fedora linux OS with a 650 Gb Seagate Barracuda Harddrive. Now I<br>> wanted to mirror the server with an identical harddrive. When I<br>> plugged my new harddrive in, I got the message:<br>><br>> "Reboot and select proper *boot* device or *insert boot media"
<br>><br>> *It seems that because it's an identical harddrive (with not OS<br>> though), the PC doesn't *see* which one is the correct boot harddrive.<br>> Weird! If a plug a different harddisk than the one with the linux OS,
<br>> they system boots up. Any clues on how to fix this problem? *<br>><br>> *<br>> --<br>> Peter "Excalibur"<br>I rather think the operator is confused. First you need to look at what</blockquote>
<div><br><br><br><span style="font-family: georgia;">Well Karl you have to agree that this is confusing.:)</span><br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
your bios did to the original HD. Your results make me think your old HD<br>became another HD in the chain so it looks like /dev/sdb now when it was<br>/dev/sda when alone in the computer.</blockquote><div><br><br><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Well yeah in a technical way.</span><br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Look at what you bios has done. If these are both IDE drives make
<br>sure they are not on the same cable.</blockquote><div><br><br style="font-family: georgia;"><br style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">They are SATA drives. And I only had some molex connectors around. So I used a molex to SATA adapters to connect the drives.
<br><br>As for the BIOS, it shows two identical drives connected. And they both have the same booting code. <br><br><br>They might have been connected on the same molex cable extension. So if I understand correctly, just placing them on totally different cable would solve the problem?
<br></span></div><br><br></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">-- </span><br style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Peter "Excalibur"</span>