What'd I do wrong?

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 22:56 -0500, John Aldrich wrote:
> I installed  a new SATA drive in my linux box that had previously (except 
> for my dvd-rw) been all PATA. I then tried to install F12 on it, and told 
> it to put GRUB on the new drive. 
> 
> After I finished installing, I rebooted and it tried to boot F11 again. I 
> rebooted, went into BIOS and changed the order of the drives to put the 
> SATA drive in as the primary drive, and let it boot. It just hung. So 
> obviously something isn't right.
> 
> I went back into BIOS and changed the order of the drives back and now I'm 
> back in F11. How do I get this fixed, w/o disconnecting the PATA drives? Do 
> I need to change the order of the drives in BIOS and reinstall???
> 
> I've never tried to put a fresh drive in and boot off it, so I could use a 
> bit of help here. :-)
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If the install is all done, you need to change the boot order of the
drives and save it in BIOS and then boot the DVD again in rescue mode
and...

chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/sda

because apparently you installed with the PATA drive as /dev/sda and it
just boots F11. So you have to get the bootloader code installed into
the MBR of your SATA drive in order for grub to boot that drive.

You could of course have 'multi-boot' but you didn't ask that question.

Craig



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