windows on hdb does not boot

[oleksandr korneta]

on 01/14/2006 10:17 PM Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 16:49 -0500, oleksandr korneta wrote:
>> I happened once to install fedora on /dev/hdb, and then physically
>> made it /dev/hda... Everything was messed up, I had to reinstall the
>> system (just because I didn't have any other machine close to me to
>> get alternative solution)
> 
> That's really not necessary, you could have saved yourself a lot of
> effort.
> 
> You'd have had to reconfigure GRUB to use the right drive, and
> reconfigure /etc/fstab so that your mount points refer to the right
> drives and partitions, but the software installed on your system doesn't
> care which drive it's on (hda, sda, etc.), it's only important where
> it's mounted (/usr/bin/ etc.).  Both reconfigurations are easy enough to
> do.

hm... I reconfigured grub but didnt think about fstab, therefore when it 
started complaining about some critical stuff missing, because it was 
looking for it in a wrong place, I just reinstalled it. Anyway, this was 
a long time ago, thus it is not that important anymore. But thanks for 
the hint, it might be helpful later.


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regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

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