Am 14.04.2012 13:52, schrieb Dale: > kwk...@hkbn.net wrote: >> On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 05:32:01 -0500 >> Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Gregory Shearman wrote: >>>> In linux.gentoo.user, Dale wrote: >>>>> I have ran into a issue here. I copied everything over to sdb, my >>>>> temp drive. When I try to boot it, it still boots from sda which >>>>> is the primary drive. I can not get it to boot from the copy. I >>>>> did update the fstab file to point to the new sdb partitions, I >>>>> use labels for that and they have different names. I also edited >>>>> grub and told it root was sdb2. When I boot, everything mounted >>>>> is sda. >>>> >>>> Did you actually install grub onto your MBR by either: >>>> [...] >>> >>> In the past, I never had to install grub to sdb. As long as grub is >>> installed to one drive, I can boot a OS from any drive. >>> [...] >>> >>> So, has something changed that if I want to boot from a second drive I >>> have to install grub to its MBR first? >>> [...] >> >> Yes, if you want to boot from another drive, that drive needs to have >> a usable MBR (or GPT equivalent). >> [...] > > Well, I installed grub to the second drives MBR. I even changed the > BIOS to see that drive as the main or first drive. It still boots the > old drive. I looked in dmesg and saw where it is supposed to point to > the tmp drive and it still boots the old drive even tho it is told not to. > > Let's see, boot a CD, just do a reinstall from scratch and call it a > day. This is ridiculous when you can't tell a boot loader to boot the > second drive and it actually do it. Heaven forbid if I had two Linux > OSs on here. > > :-) :-) >
As we are out of rational ideas, have you tried unplugging the old disk? You don't need it for booting at the moment, right? AS SATA is hot-plugin capable, you can re-insert it later. Regards, Florian Philipp
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