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Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Am 14.04.2012 13:52, schrieb Dale: |
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>> kwkhui@××××.net wrote: |
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>>> On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 05:32:01 -0500 |
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>>> Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> Gregory Shearman wrote: |
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>>>>> In linux.gentoo.user, Dale wrote: |
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>>>>>> I have ran into a issue here. I copied everything over to sdb, my |
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>>>>>> temp drive. When I try to boot it, it still boots from sda which |
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>>>>>> is the primary drive. I can not get it to boot from the copy. I |
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>>>>>> did update the fstab file to point to the new sdb partitions, I |
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>>>>>> use labels for that and they have different names. I also edited |
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>>>>>> grub and told it root was sdb2. When I boot, everything mounted |
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>>>>>> is sda. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> Did you actually install grub onto your MBR by either: |
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>>>>> |
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> [...] |
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>>>> In the past, I never had to install grub to sdb. As long as grub is |
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>>>> installed to one drive, I can boot a OS from any drive. |
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> [...] |
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>>>> So, has something changed that if I want to boot from a second drive I |
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>>>> have to install grub to its MBR first? |
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> [...] |
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>>> |
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>>> Yes, if you want to boot from another drive, that drive needs to have |
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>>> a usable MBR (or GPT equivalent). |
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> [...] |
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>> Well, I installed grub to the second drives MBR. I even changed the |
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>> BIOS to see that drive as the main or first drive. It still boots the |
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>> old drive. I looked in dmesg and saw where it is supposed to point to |
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>> the tmp drive and it still boots the old drive even tho it is told not to. |
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>> Let's see, boot a CD, just do a reinstall from scratch and call it a |
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>> day. This is ridiculous when you can't tell a boot loader to boot the |
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>> second drive and it actually do it. Heaven forbid if I had two Linux |
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>> OSs on here. |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> As we are out of rational ideas, have you tried unplugging the old disk? |
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> You don't need it for booting at the moment, right? AS SATA is |
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> hot-plugin capable, you can re-insert it later. |
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> Regards, |
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> Florian Philipp |
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Well, if I unplug it, how am I going to change the partitions and copy |
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the OS back over to it? I have not tested the hot plug thingy yet. |
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Yea, it is supposed to work but . . . |
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I have done this many times before and never took the sides off the |
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computer. Has someone broken grub? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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