I have had a machine running Red Hat 7.3 for some time. Recently I heard the tell tale clucking of my hard drive going bad. I thought it would be a simple process to remove the drive and mount it on my Red Hat 9 box and transfer the data off of that drive. Now here is where I ran into problems. I installed the drive as master on the secondary ide channel. The Red Hat 9 drive is master of the primary controller. When the system starts to boot it starts grub on hda, but from what I gather from the hostname displayed, grub tries to boot the old hard drive on hdc and the system will not boot. I can't figure out why grub looks to hdc for the kernel. I have tried rearranging the devices on the ide channel but to no success. The system will boot up fine with the old hard drive removed. I have been trying to manipulate grub to boot the correct kernel but don't have any experience doing this. I have also made a boot disk, but that gives an error when it tries to load with both hard drives installed. If I was using dos I could get those files copied in no time. Any ideas?

Thanks for any help.

It is probably using a "LABEL=/" value remove that and use the device and partition - eg "/dev/hda3"

That was it, thank you very much for your help. I figured it was something simple.