How do I change the my hd (with linux) from slave to master and have grub boot?

r3dhatter · 02-18-2005, 06:51 PM

How do I change the my hd (with linux) from slave to master and have grub boot?

I get error 17 if I try to change my hd from slave to master.

Thanks

jailbait · 02-18-2005, 08:41 PM

"How do I change the my hd (with linux) from slave to master and have grub boot?
I get error 17 if I try to change my hd from slave to master."

When you move a hard drive you have to change grub.conf to point to all of the new addresses of your partitions. Move the hard drive. Then use a rescue CD to boot into your Linux system. Edit grub.conf (on some distributions the file is called menu.lst) to point to your new partition addresses. Then run this command:
grub-install /dev/hda

That should get your grub set up properly.

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Steve Stites

r3dhatter · 02-18-2005, 09:40 PM

How do I make it point to master?

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-1-k7
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-k7 root=/dev/hda3 ro
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-1-k7
savedefault
boot

Thanks

r3dhatter · 02-19-2005, 01:29 AM

Can anyone tell me how to switch it really quick?
Sorry, but i really want to get this hd working

Thanks

jailbait · 02-19-2005, 11:35 AM

"Can anyone tell me how to switch it really quick?"

Assuming that your / partition is now hda1 then change:
root (hd0,0)
to:
root /dev/hda1

Which brings up the question of how did this work on your old configuration?

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Steve Stites

r3dhatter · 02-20-2005, 02:30 PM

old configuration? Will this way be easier than changing my menu.lst to have debian say root (1,0) and my windows say (0,0) Basically just switching them because my windows is my master and linux slave. So, I just switch them. Not sure if this would work though.

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-1-k7 (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-k7 root=/dev/hda3 ro single
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-1-k7
savedefault
boot

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/hdb1
title Windows 98
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)

Thanks
#savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

r3dhatter · 02-21-2005, 02:06 AM

can anyone confirm this?

thnks