Hello-
I'm using Red Hat 7.2 and GRUB... I just got my hands on a Promise Ultra 66 IDE controller card. I have two drives in my system and am trying (but having trouble) to move both from the onboard IDE to the Promise card. Currently the /dev/hda1 drive is the boot drive. I believe once I move it to the Promise card it'll become /dev/hde1. So my question is this: what all changes do I need to make in order to switch the drive successfully? As far as I've been able to figure out I need to modify grub and /etc/fstab in order to make this transition? I've attempted to change grub.conf to be root=/dev/hde1 (this is the 2nd line in the configuration) and I'm assuming the 1st line is still "root(hd0,0)" since even though this drive is on a different controller it's still the 1st hard drive that grub locates. Then I changed fstab so that my / and swap point to /hde1 and /hde2 respectivly (used to be /hda1 and /hda2) I then rebooted- and it stops during the process- doesn't get very far into the boot process (sorry, not real familiar with the various stages of the boot proc.) It gets to a set of lines where it lists out the hard disk hardware- so it looks like the kernel sees it. But it doesn't make it to the point where it mounts the filesystems and runs fsck... What am I missing? I didn't try to edit mtab- do I need to fiddle with that file too? Is there something else? Thanks much for any help! ps- while fiddling, I've put my main drive back on the motherboard's controller but kept the second drive on the Promise IDE card- and can succesfully access the 2nd drive- so I know the issue isn't with some sort of low level Promise driver... some more info: after all is said and done, this is what will likely be: /dev/hdd will be the CD-ROM (2nd channel, slave on motherboard- cd's refuse to boot when CD-ROM is on Promise card- so must keep it on motherboard's IDE controller...) /dev/hde1 will be / /dev/hde2 will be swap /dev/hdh1 will be a miscellaneous drive... (and I already have this one succesfully mounted here...) _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
