Hi
I am trouble with my new harddisk I bought for my debian server. Its a rather old machine with 500mhz. It had a 13gb hd, and then I bought a 160 gb. I unplugged the old hd, put in the new as master and reinstalled debian, worked fine. (the old hd was somehow corrupt and so i decided the installation should better be a on a new hd).

Ok now I still wanted to access the files on my old harddisk, so i plugged it in as primary slave. I boot my box, and get a grub error 18. I unplug my harddisk again, and reboot, and still grub errror 18. I read in some forum I should change from lba to normal, and then I get grub error 17.

I can't boot, even though the old harddisk is removed now!

What could be my problem?

Any suggestions thanks

quarry

not sure if you tried this but here goes

grub in mbr is looking for booting files that you POINTED grub to when you first installed grub on drive 0"s mbr

The easiest way
keep grub in mbr for primary assuming
primary is the big drive
slave is the drive some files are to be taken off

amend your grub menu.lst to show (hd1,0) or where-ever /boot is... for the root command but you may need to trouble shoot unless your memory of the small drive is good

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=237511 may help especially the trouble shoooter