Hi
i tried to use fdisk -l to see if any thing makes sense
here it is
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcccdcccd
Device Boot Start
Ok i tried the following
edited my /boot/grub/device.map
to show the following
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb
edited the /boot/grub/menu.lst
as follows
title MANDRIVA linux
kernel (hd1,4)/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux
root=UUID=9be80552-9983-4062-b4da-1247596cbbae resume=/dev/sdb1
You can see which partition on each disk is marked as bootable from
the fdisk outout i.e. the one with '*'.
1. When you say (hd0,1) it means 1st partition on 0th hard disk. So in
your case you will have to specify (hd1,1).
2. You can see that root partition of your installation is specified
with
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
For the past few days have been wanting to try other distros's along
with my existing Ubuntu 7.04. So i installed Mandriva 2008 spring on an
external USB HD (my laptop supports booting of USB).
change your bios
Hi Onkar,
Thanks will try your suggestions.
ram
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Onkar Shinde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can see which partition on each disk is marked as bootable from
the fdisk outout i.e. the one with '*'.
1. When you say (hd0,1) it means 1st partition on 0th hard disk.
Hi
For the past few days have been wanting to try other distros's along
with my existing Ubuntu 7.04. So i installed Mandriva 2008 spring on an
external USB HD (my laptop supports booting of USB).
For the second OS (being installed on the external usb HD) i made an
additional /boot and pointed
Hi
For the past few days have been wanting to try other distros's along
with my existing Ubuntu 7.04. So i installed Mandriva 2008 spring on an
external USB HD (my laptop supports booting of USB).
For the second OS (being installed on the external usb HD) i made an
additional /boot and pointed
