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Problems booting from second hard disk


From: Fredrik Söderström
Subject: Problems booting from second hard disk
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:08:35 +0100
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I use Grub to boot several things from my first hard disk. Grub is installed 
on the MBR, version  0.93-4, and it has always worked fine. I recently added 
another disk, and installed Fedora on it. When I try to boot it, Grub 
complains that it can't find the files it needs to boot Fedora.

The strange thing about this is that if I, when Grub shows its menu, edit the 
two lines "kernel (hd1,7)..." and "initrd (hd1,7)..." by deleting the last 
few characters of the file names and then using tab completion, I can boot 
Fedora. I actuallly don't change anything, just edit and then recover.

For testing, I installed an old version of Debian which boots flawlessly from 
the second disk.

Any ideas about what is going wrong?

The relevant part (I think) of my grub.conf:
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-28.9)               #works fine
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-28.9 ro root=/dev/hdc6
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-28.9.img
title Fedora Core 1 (2.4.22-1)                  #works only after editing 
kernel and initrd
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel (hd1,7)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2215.nptl ro root=/dev/hdd8
        initrd (hd1,7)/boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2215.nptl.img
title Debian                                            #works fine
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel (hd1,8)/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20 ro root=/dev/hdd9

Fredrik
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