It seems windows is entirely incabable of booting from anything but hda so I took a friends sujestion and tried to move my linux drive from hda to hdb, however I seem to be having problems getting it to boot. I'm not too fussed about getting window's in the grub boot menu as I can use f11 in my bios to select the drive to boot from.
I'm using Debian Sarge RC and Grub. I edit the grub and fstab to load hdb instead of hda but when I boot grub gives me this error.
Code:
root (hd1,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-k7 root=/dev/hdb1 ro
Error 17:cannot mount selected partition
press any key....
If I select the old grub menu option for hda (even thoguh the drive is now on hdb) it actuially seems to boot normally for a moment before stopping with some errors.
(note, I've also since upgraded to kernel 2.6.11-1-k7 but haven't tried with that as I assume it's not the problem)
to change the drive from hda to hdb I used the grub module for webmin to duplicate and edit the entry and editid my fstab file to change hda to hdb.
extract from /boot/grub/menu.lst
Code:
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-k7
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-k7 root=/dev/hda1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-k7
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-k7 (HDB)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-k7 root=/dev/hdb1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-k7
the second option is the edited one made by webmin for booting off hdb.
extract from /etc/fstab
Code:
/dev/hda1 / reiserfs notail 0 1
/dev/hda6 /home reiserfs defaults 0 2
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
And I just change the hda's to hdb's when I'm trying to boot with the hard drive on hdb.
Anyone know what's going wrong here? Thanks.
Grub troubles. Moving linux from hda to hdb
