Andreas Glaeser wrote: > 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 Thanks for that Andreas, I'll give it a try and let you know if it works. I also created a grub boot disk with stage2_eltorito on it. Would it be better to try it from there? Cheers, Jonathan
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