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Topic: Yet another archeological challenge..., (very old laptop revival attempt)

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roberts

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Posted: Sep. 26 2007,23:16

If you installed CF as hdc then your grub entry would be looking at the wrong non-existent drive when relocated into laptop as hda. That is why, I always install CF/IDE adapter as hda in host white box. The bios sees the boot loader but cannot find hdc to continue.

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Posted: Sep. 28 2007,20:55

Thanks for the confirmation. So your recommendation is to redo the entire install with the CF as hda ? No way to salvage the current installation by modifying a GRUB conf file on the CF ?...

roberts

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Posted: Sep. 28 2007,21:43

No. You should be able to mount it in another box and then drill down to /mnt/hd??/boot/grub/menu.lst
Then edit appropriately for hda1 or hda2 however you have it installed.