/dev/sda and /dev/hda
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Wed Oct 24 11:59:03 UTC 2007
Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 18:31 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>> If I run fdisk from hd 1 which is booted I find hd 2 is at /dev/sdf
>> and hd 1 is at /dev/sda. If I boot from hd2 I find it is at
>> /dev/sda now and hd1 has changed to /dev/sdb.
>>
>
> Please clarify how you're choosing which device to boot. BIOS or GRUB?
> If GRUB, please show us your current configuration. Remapping options
> may confuse things, for instance, and may not be needed.
>
>
First BOIS. It is all done automatically and both settings are on
"auto". I can find no way to set them otherwise.
title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.fc7)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda5 quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.22.9-91.fc7.img
title Fedora (2.6.22.7-85.fc7)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.7-85.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda5 quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.img
title Fedora (2.6.22.5-76.fc7)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.5-76.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda5 quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.22.5-76.fc7.img
title Fedora f7-64
rootnoverify (hd1,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1
As you see I call grub for the new f7-64 bit with chainloader. It looks
like:
#boot=/dev/sdb
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd1,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
root (hd1,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
[root at k5di grub]#
This is odd because to get the grub.conf on the f7-64 I had to mount -t
ext3 /dev/sdf3.
A lot does not make sense. But it does work.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
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