On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 05:50:04AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > >I am trying to convert from lilo where boot=/dev/sdb0 and > >root=/dev/sdb1 in lilo.conf > > > >I have tried kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 ro and groot=(sdb,0) in grub's menu.lst > >(also kopt=root=/dev/sdb0 ro since I understand grub counts from 0). > >The MBR is unchanged and the system still boots with lilo. > > > >A problem could be that the bios setup detects the hard drive which lilo > >believes is sdb as Sata 3 (Sata 1 is another hard drive and Sata 2 is an > >optical drive). I thought maybe grub would think lilo's sdb is sdc but > >this didn't work either. > > > >A google entry indicated there is a command line continuation feature > >which should show the available drives which grub sees. I haven't been > >able to make this work. > > > >The google entries I've found have no examples for designating Sata > >drives. > > > >What have I missed? > > Just install grub on all your disks, so that your system boots > irrespective of the boot order in the bios. > > Also, it is better to use UUID for specifying the root filesystem in > menu.lst as well as in fstab.
How do I use UUID? I googled it for a definition, then tried apropos uuid which found vol_id and findfs as two programs to generate uuid's. findfs LABEL=label is unable to resolve any entry I have tried whether device, directory or file. vol_id apparently exists only as a man page, even apt-cache search vol_id finds nothing. Tom > > > > >Tom > > > > > > > -- > > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. > -- Albert Einstein > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]