Florian Philipp wrote: > 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 >
Well, if I unplug it, how am I going to change the partitions and copy the OS back over to it? I have not tested the hot plug thingy yet. Yea, it is supposed to work but . . . I have done this many times before and never took the sides off the computer. Has someone broken grub? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
