Fedora Grub boots old RedHat 7.3 drive

[Jeff Anderson]

Thanks, David.  Your suggestions worked perfectly!

--- David Eduardo Gomez Noguera
<davidgn at servidor.unam.mx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 08:19, 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.
> > 
> > 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 problem is the LABEL thingy
> I am betting your partitions on redhat 7.3's hard
> disk had also been
> labeled.
> Change your "fedora grub.con" file to name
> partitions explicitly (on the
> kernel line).
> Also, do the same for your /etc/fstab on your fedora
> system, as that may
> cause problems too.
> 
> Hope that fixes your problem.
> 
> PS. The grub.conf file on your redhat 7.3 system is
> not being read
> 
> 
> 
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