Fedora Grub boots old RedHat 7.3 drive

[Alan]

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 06:19, Jeff Anderson wrote:
> I have been running RedHat 7.3 for some time.  I
> recently installed Fedora on a new hard drive. 
> Everything works great until I stick the old 7.3 boot
> drive back into the box.

You have duplicate disk labels.

Use tune2fs to relabel one of them.  (Make sure to fix /etc/fstab if you
relabel your current one.)

> 
> Regardless of where the drive is (hdc, hdd, etc) I get
> the Fedora GRUB screen at boot.  Once the system
> starts booting, it uses the old 7.3 drive instead of
> the Fedora drive.
> 
> If I disconnect the 7.3 drive, Fedora boots and
> everything is fine again.  I need to be able to boot
> Fedora correctly and mount the old 7.3 drive to copy
> files.
> 
> I would appreciate some ideas on what the problem is
> and how to fix it.  
> 
> Here is details about my configuration and what I have
> tried:
> 
> -- The BIOS and the only boot hard disk is the Fedora
> disc.
> -- The BIOS shows each drive in the proper place (i.e.
> the Fedora drive is the primary on the first IDE
> channel.  
> -- When the boot loader starts it shows the Fedora
> boot stuff from hda.
> -- When the actual boot process starts, it always uses
> the 7.3 drive unless it is disconnected.  In that case
> it boots from the Fedora drive.
> 
> Here is the grub.conf from the Fedora drive (hda):
> 
> ---------------------------------
> 
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making
> changes to this file
> # NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This
> means that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to
> /, eg.
> #          root (hd0,0)
> #          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro
> root=/dev/hda1
> #          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> password --md5 $1$iJ9LuhFJ$NH1513oi/K4fo79VPNpgl0
> title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2135.nptl)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl ro
> root=LABEL=/ rhgb
>         initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl.img
> title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro
> root=LABEL=/ rhgb
>         initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
> ----------------------------------
> 
> HERE is the grub.conf from the old 7.3 drive:
> 
> ----------------------------------
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making
> changes to this file
> # NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This
> means that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to
> /, eg.
> #          root (hd0,0)
> #          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro
> root=/dev/hda1
> #          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-24.7)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-24.7 ro
> root=/dev/hda1
>         initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-24.7.img
> ----------------------------------
> 
> The device.map file for both drives is the same:
> 
> (fd0)     /dev/fd0
> (hd0)     /dev/hda
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> 
> 
> 
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