Changing my boot disk

[Jim Harkins]

I installed RedHat 7.3 on a drive that was the primary master.  I have
things working nicely.  But it turns out it needs to boot as the secondary
master.  I'm not having a lot of lucking getting this beast to boot.

My grub.conf is (I'm typing this after looking at a screen directly behind
me 10 feet, excuse minor errors)

default=0
timeout=10
title whatever
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.img

I've also looked at device.map, trying to remap (hd0) to /dev/hda, /dev/hdb,
/dev/hdc, and /dev/hdd.  No joy.

The system always stops at:
Loading ext3 module
Mounting /proc filesystem
Creating root device
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 280k freed
Kernel panic: Nop init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.

I'm assuming this is where the ram disk tries to switch to the hard drive,
and the mount error message is saying my device doesn't exist.  But the
actual device it's trying has scrolled off the screen and I can't scroll
back.  When I move the cable so my drive is the primary master the sucker
boots right up.

I'm not sure if this is a grub issue, or something else.  Can anyone help?

Thanks.

jim

Jim Harkins
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