[Wftl-lug] Speaking of GRUB problems

[Jim Asbille]

On 3/6/07, AJ Field <ajfield at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 06 March 2007 09:15, Jim Asbille wrote:
> > When I setup my current computer I must have been sleep walking.  My
> hard
> > drive was set to Cable Select and I plugged it into the middle connector
> of
> > the ribbon cable.  I never really paid attention and all has been fine
> for
> > two years.  Last year on my birthday I received an iPod from my lovely
> wife
> > and I started ripping my CD collection to load onto it.  Recently I
> > realized I was starting to fill up my 80gb hard drive so I thought I
> would
> > just add a slave HD to hold songs.  Horror!  My HD is the primary
> slave!  I
> > tried moving it to be the Primary Master but GRUB hangs.  Anybody know
> if
> > the transfer from PS to PM is possible and if so how do I update
> GRUB?  I
> > may just have to start with a clean slate but that takes forever because
> I
> > have Win2k/Suse 10.0 setup, backups, configurations, blah, blah, blah.
> >
> > My thanks up front for any help granted from my fellow LUG Nuts!
>
> Hello Jim:
>
> I've been watching this post for a few days hoping someone more
> knowledgeable
> than me would reply. Since that has not happened, I'll jump in. I will
> have
> to make a few assumptions because all the details were not clear to me
> from
> your original post. So, I assume (1) that your original installation was
> with
> your one and only hard drive on primary slave. Your Win2K and Suse are
> both
> on that drive. Win2K is on the first partion of that drive, and Suse is on
> the the second. Swap is probably on the third.(2) No hard drive was
> attached
> to the primary master. You installed grub to the MBR of your hard drive.
> (that's not really important, I don't think; but if you used a boot loader
> such as GAG, then this whole procedure would be a lot easier). Anyway,
> here
> goes. Before you try to swap the drives, boot to your Suse partition. Then
> drop to a terminal as root. Edit your </boot/grub/menu.lst> file to tell
> grub
> where to look for the root partition. Find the line that reads something
> like
> <root.. (hd1,0) and change that to correspond to the root partion to which
> you will be switching your hard drive. So in your case you want to put
> your
> existing hard drive on Primary Master. Therefore your
> </boot/grub/menu.lst>
> file should read <root.. (hd0,0)> if your are booting from the first
> partition of the first IDE drive. If you are booting from the second
> partition of the first IDE drive, then then that line should be <(hd0,1).
> After editing your </boot/grub/menu.lst> file then you can switch the
> drives
> around and re-boot. Everything should be OK. I apologize if I have not
> been
> perfectly clear on all this, but I'm a Slacker, and therefore I use Lilo
> rather than GRUB. I also think that you may be able to do all this from
> within YAST, but I'm not sure on that. Anyway,
> HTH
> --
> AJ Field
> ajfield at rogers dot com
> Linux Registered User #341855
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AJ,

Thanks very much, your assumptions are right on.  I will try these changes
as soon as I can, most likely Friday.  Once I do I will report back.

-- 
Jim Asbille, MSM
registered Linux user number 388067

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Buddha
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