Fedora Grub boots old RedHat 7.3 drive
Alan
alan at clueserver.org
Wed Dec 31 04:43:33 UTC 2003
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 06:19, Jeff Anderson wrote:
> I have been running RedHat 7.3 for some time. I
> recently installed Fedora on a new hard drive.
> Everything works great until I stick the old 7.3 boot
> drive back into the box.
You have duplicate disk labels.
Use tune2fs to relabel one of them. (Make sure to fix /etc/fstab if you
relabel your current one.)
>
> Regardless of where the drive is (hdc, hdd, etc) I get
> the Fedora GRUB screen at boot. Once the system
> starts booting, it uses the old 7.3 drive instead of
> the Fedora drive.
>
> If I disconnect the 7.3 drive, Fedora boots and
> everything is fine again. I need to be able to boot
> Fedora correctly and mount the old 7.3 drive to copy
> files.
>
> I would appreciate some ideas on what the problem is
> and how to fix it.
>
> Here is details about my configuration and what I have
> tried:
>
> -- The BIOS and the only boot hard disk is the Fedora
> disc.
> -- The BIOS shows each drive in the proper place (i.e.
> the Fedora drive is the primary on the first IDE
> channel.
> -- When the boot loader starts it shows the Fedora
> boot stuff from hda.
> -- When the actual boot process starts, it always uses
> the 7.3 drive unless it is disconnected. In that case
> it boots from the Fedora drive.
>
> Here is the grub.conf from the Fedora drive (hda):
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making
> changes to this file
> # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This
> means that
> # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to
> /, eg.
> # root (hd0,0)
> # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro
> root=/dev/hda1
> # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> password --md5 $1$iJ9LuhFJ$NH1513oi/K4fo79VPNpgl0
> title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2135.nptl)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl ro
> root=LABEL=/ rhgb
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2135.nptl.img
> title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro
> root=LABEL=/ rhgb
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
> ----------------------------------
>
> HERE is the grub.conf from the old 7.3 drive:
>
> ----------------------------------
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making
> changes to this file
> # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This
> means that
> # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to
> /, eg.
> # root (hd0,0)
> # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro
> root=/dev/hda1
> # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-24.7)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-24.7 ro
> root=/dev/hda1
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-24.7.img
> ----------------------------------
>
> The device.map file for both drives is the same:
>
> (fd0) /dev/fd0
> (hd0) /dev/hda
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
>
>
>
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