Hi, I've had Mandriva 2008 installed for a while, together with Windows Xp. Now I bought two 500GB Hard Drives, and I've put them in Raid 1, so I had to change the positon of my original hard drive where linux was installed. It seems that /dev/sda5/ changed to /dev/sdc5/. Now I can only have acess to the console. Is it possible to change the path for Linux to boot normally or should I reinstall? If I change the drives to the way they were, Linux works as before, so I hope that changing the path is possible (Mandriva's bootloder is still showing up). Thx.

Not quite enough info but close....

1) please describe bios boot order

2) are raid devices via onboard raid card or some other raid way?

3) thanks for mentioning mdv bootloader shows up....but can you use it to boot into ms?

4) Ideally I would like you to leave your new setup.....bios to boot to linux drive and use chainloader command to boot to ms raid drives.....but you will need to change the the grub menu for the kernel line root= from /dev/sda5 to sdc5 and change your /etc/fstab line to reflect the new positions......if you know about UUID you can change grub and fstab to use UUID and then that makes life a little easier if you change again.

uuid is mentioned in my signature but please advise how you WANT to setup your system and we can take it from there.

1) Well Windows is on the same drive as Mandriva (that would be /dev/sdc,
and I is the first drive to boot in Bios (after CD-Rom :P).
2) It's via a onboard controller on GigaByte GA-P35-DS3P, seems to work in Mandriva if I connect them in a strange way, so the driver is not a problem (there's only music on them, no Windows, no Linux), just can't get them both to work together.
3) Windows is booting and if I change the command line from /dev/sda5/ to /dev/sdc5/, Linux also starts to boot, but gives me an error that /dev/sda5 is not accesible and asks for root password and moves me to console.
4) It seems that I just need to change /etc/fstab line, and then grubs line (well it can be changed when loading manually so if I get Linux to boot it can be changed from there).
So how do I change /etc/fstab/ (/dev/sda5/ to /dev/sdc5/) in the console correctly? Maybe I should use Knoppix or something?

Thanks for your help, seems that the problem is not that serious. =)

EDIT: So i tried using "vi /etc/fstab", it opens the file, but in read only, nothing helps, sudo, chmod -c +rwrwrw /etc/fstab, it still is read only, both from the console that comes after the error and the console that opens after choosing rescue systyem on the installation CD. File does containt lines that I'm supposed to edit, just cant get it writeable. Maybe I should boot from knoppix or ubuntu?
EDIT: Well, I reinstalled it, everything works so far, thx anyway.