grub-install --recheck On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:22:57PM +0900, Dennis McMurchy wrote: > Hi, > > I've done a default installation of the GRUB loader in connection with > installing Fedora Core 3. It worked fine. > > I then changed the configuration of my machine a bit, removing one > HDD, so that the FC3 installation and its /boot/grub directory were > no longer on /dev/sdd1, but on /dev/sdc1. > > Trying to boot yields the four letters: 'GRUB', and then nothing. > The machine just locks up at that point. This error doesn't seem to be > documented under 'Error Messages'. > > Realizing that the HDD references in grub.conf would be wrong, I > went in and changed the two references to (hd3,0) to (hd2,0). This > had no effect on the symptoms of the problem. > > So, I went into the FC3 installation again, using the Rescue Console > function on the distribution disk. I 'chrooted' to /mnt/sysadmin, and > proceeded to try running 'grub-install'. I get error messages referring > to an unfindable /dev/sdd1, so clearly the grub system is remembering > where it was originally set up from. It's not clear to me where to go > from here. > > I hate to go back to LILO, which is clearly inferior, but I can't > afford to have my system broken beyond repair every time I swap an HDD > in or out. > > Hope I'm not wasting your time with this, and that you can point me > in the right direction. > > Cheers, Dennis > > -- > Dennis McMurchy, > Sointula, B.C. / Tojinmachi, Fukuoka > Canada Japan > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > Bug-grub@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
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