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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:12:45 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>> I would like either the old IDE drives to come first, since I rarely |
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>> ever move them or grub to work with labels. I have a entry in |
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>> grub.conf that uses the labels but i have not rebooted yet. According |
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>> to what I have read it will work. The only concern is that if grub |
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>> doesn't like labels and I add another drive, then I got to edit the |
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>> grub boot line to boot and it took me a couple tries to get this |
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>> right. It seeing what used to be the last drive first sort of took me |
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>> by surprise. I don't like surprises to much. |
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> Press c to get the GRUB command line and then use find to identify your |
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> root partition - find /etc/fstab will work unless you have two root |
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> partitions. There's no need for suck-it-and-see editing of config files, |
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> you only have to change menu.lst after you have found and tested the |
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> correct boot options. |
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I know I switched to grub from lilo because it was user friendly but I |
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haven't used this feature. So instead of hitting "e", I hit "c" and it |
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gives me something similar to what I get when I type grub into a console |
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when booted? I did a man grub here and I don't see that documented. Is |
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this documented somewhere? |
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I do have a old back-up copy of Gentoo on another drive. Since it's not |
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tarballed, I guess it would find its fstab too. Grub would think it is |
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a second OS. This is interesting. I'm hoping this is documented |
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somewhere so I can do some reading. |
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Thanks. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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