On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 18:17 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > I am running Debian Etch 2.6.15-1-686 on an Asus motherboard with an AMD64 > chip. Etch is running on /dev/hda. I wanted to try out the 64bit kernel so > I installed a second HD /dev/hdb and installed Sid amd64 from scratch. I > didn't want to get involved in chroot type stuff which is why I did it this > way. Both systems use grub but the MBR is pointing to /dev/hdb for the > menu.1st file. When I upgraded the kernel on the Etch 686 system of course > I had to copy the newly created menu.1st item from Etch to the menu.1st > file on Sid amd64 in order for it to show up on the grub menu on bootup. > That was ok for a while but now I'm getting disk errors on /dev/hdb. I can > still boot into Etch ok but I would like to change things so that the MBR > looks at /dev/hda instead of /dev/hdb. I may have to replace the hdb drive > if reformatting and reinstalling Sid amd64 don't clear up the problems. > > Can someone tell me how to tell grub to ignore /dev/hdb and look at /dev/hda > for the bootup menu? > Thanks in advance for any advice. > Jonathan > Maybe ´grub-install --root-directory=/dev/hda /dev/hda´ has the desired effect.
Regards -- Andreas Glaeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
