I hope someone can help me with this, I've been working on this for awhile and looking for help in a few other venues:
I've been trying to move my Linux installation from one drive to another, to no avail. Finally, last night, I decided what the heck, I'm gonna just do a complete reinstall. Here's how everything is situated at the moment: /dev/hda is a Maxtor 20GB on the first EIDE Channel /dev/hda1 = / , 19.5GB (First installation) /dev/hda2 = swap, 512MB (First intallation) /dev/hde is a Western Digital 120GB UltraATA100 on the first UATA100 Channel /dev/hde1 = /boot , 10MB (for other installation) /dev/hde2 = [windows partition] (35GB) /dev/hde3 = / , ~85GB (for other installation) /dev/hde4 = swap, 512MB (for other installation) /dev/hde is an UltraATA100 drive on the UltraATA100 channel. /dev/hde1 is /boot, and small, since I wanted both Windows and Linux to have boot info within the first 1024 cylinders to keep everyone happy, no weird workarounds. Initially, I had just set up /dev/hde like /dev/hda, with a third partition for windows at the end. I had copied everything from /dev/hda1 to /dev/hde1, chroot'ed to /dev/hde1, and did a 'grub-install /dev/hde1'. I got an error there, saying that '/dev/hde does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.' Anyhow, when I re-installed onto /dev/hde, I asked the installer to install grub into the master boot record and at the beginning of /dev/hde to make sure it would still work after windows was installed. Then I put the UltraATA100 bus before the EIDE bus in the boot order in BIOS. Rebooting, all I got was the regular BIOS messages, then instead of going into the boot loader, at the bottom of the screen after all the info I got a gray-on-black 'GRUB -' and the computer just froze there. Any idea what gives? Do boot loaders not install on UltraATA drives, or just this drive or what? I can't seem to find any information.... I have been working with a friend who knows quite a bit more than I do on this for awhile, but we haven't got anything working quite correctly. I think I can fix it by installing GRUB on /dev/hda1, but eventually I want to format it as FAT32 or something and make it a common drive between Linux and Windows...would it have to contain a grub.conf or could I get GRUB installed on its MBR and reference the grub.conf on /dev/hde1, or would that not work? Thanks for any help, and if any more information is needed please let me know. I'm dying to sort this all out. Oh and as for motivation for doing this at all--I am hoping to eke out a bit more speed in swap space usage, as well as boot time, from the new drive. Marc -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
