Booting on a second drive
Forum: HD Install
Topic: Booting on a second drive
started by: La Bourde
Posted by La Bourde on Feb. 05 2006,00:21
Hello everybody !First, excuse my English, i'm french
.I've got 2 HD on an old computer. On the both HD, i've installed DSL.
The second HD (/dev/hdc) is temporarly in this computer, I'll remove it when grub will be correctly installed on the first (/dev/hdc ...
).I've got the grub's 21th error when I boot with only the first drive.
=Grub didn't see the hard drive (and don't know why...).
So I would like to boot on the second hard drive (/dev/hdc) and use the partition on it (/dev/hdc2).
When I boot, I modify the grub's boot commands list, like this:
| Code Sample |
| root (hd1,1) #it's /dev/hdc, I check with the geomety command kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc2 #hdc1 =swap partition, hdc2 ext2 / |
But DSL try to find the Knoppix image, and found everytime /dev/hda2 first. (not /dev/hdc2)
So, it mounts this partition, and I can't use grub on it (because all the partitions of the drive must be unmounted) !
I try a
| Code Sample |
| chroot /mnt/hdc2 |
How can I override the search of the Knoppix image ?
Have you another idea ?
Thanks a lot.
Posted by La Bourde on Feb. 05 2006,17:13
I found the solution last night.I've just commented the line
| Code Sample |
| initrd /boot/minirt.gz |
Posted by AwPhuch on Feb. 05 2006,23:40
Congrats! and Welcome to the Revolution!!!Brian
AwPhuch