In linux.gentoo.user, Dale wrote: > I have ran into a issue here. I copied everything over to sdb, my temp > drive. When I try to boot it, it still boots from sda which is the > primary drive. I can not get it to boot from the copy. I did update > the fstab file to point to the new sdb partitions, I use labels for that > and they have different names. I also edited grub and told it root was > sdb2. When I boot, everything mounted is sda.
Did you actually install grub onto your MBR by either: # grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sdb or # grub grub> root (hd1,0) grub> setup (hd1) grub> quit ------------------------------------------------------------------------- You didn't actually write down these steps. Are you assuming that we know you've done that? -- Regards, Gregory.
