Interesting

[Timothy Murphy]

Karl Larsen wrote:

>     I have 2 hard drives and this has caused some problems now
> understood. Here is what happened.
> 
> Day 1: I turned off the IDE drive with this F7 and loaded F7-64 onto the
> new SATA drive. I let grub set up on the F7-64 so I could be sure to get
> it at least fully loaded. This worked and when it was up (without a
> pointer) I got a Terminal open and using fdisk I found that the SATA
> drive was at /dev/sda and the IDE was at /dev/sdb.
> 
>     Tried many grub things but none seemed to work. Don't recall but I
> did get grub so confused it could not find a hard drive :-)   So then I
> got the SATA drive unplugged and rebooted but still a problem. Then from
> a rescue cd I redid the proper grub intonation and the IDE drive booted
> up.
> 
> Day3: The SATA drive was plugged back in and when it came up the IDE
> drive was still /dev/sda. Looked for SATA and it is at /dev/sdf now. No
> reason known for this. I mounted the SATA on this computer and adjusted
> grub.conf and fstab to be at /dev/sdf and this is done.
> 
> LABELS: The SATA F7-64 uses labels and they are a real pain! I am trying
> to get them understood and it is hard. I guess label's are good after
> everything is working.
> 
>     Next I am going to want to chainload the grub on the F7-64 on the
> SATA drive, from the grub on the IDE drive. This should be easy but I
> need to set up the grub on the SATA drive proper. I am going to try and
> get both the root and the setup to be /dev/sdf 3 and then chainload that.

Why do you keep changing your drives?
Surely it would be better to leave the 2 drives alone,
and try to work out what is happening.