Need Help Editing Grub

[Eric Shubert]

"every reference to hd1,0 is converted to hd0,0"
You need to edit this manually. hd1 in grub corresponds to hdb in linux, 
and hd0 in grub is hda in linux.

Mark Phillips wrote:
> I understand the flow....shouldn't I tell grub somehow that the new boot 
> drive is hd0,0? In your steps below, is there perhaps, a typo?
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> Mark
> 
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:58 PM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com 
> <mailto:kitepilot at kitepilot.com> <kitepilot at kitepilot.com 
> <mailto:kitepilot at kitepilot.com>> wrote:
> 
>      >> 1. How do I change grub on the Linux drive (hdb) to say "the ...
>     If you are running GRUB 0.XX (GRUB 1.XX is different):
>     Boot your Debian machine and as root run:
>     grub
>     root (hd1,0)
>     root (hd1)
>     It should answer that it found the stages, verify that there are no
>     errors.
>     quit
> 
> 
>     Then take a backup of /boot/grub/menu.lst and and make sure that
>     everything
>     is either using UUID(s) or labels or every reference to hd1,0 is
>     converted
>     to hd0,0
> 
>     Verify your /etc/fstab likewise.
> 
> 
>      > 2. Do I move the second drive to the first ide port, or leave it
>     as ...
>     Shutdown, pull the cable from the windoze drive and plug it to Linux
>     drive.
>     Turn on and pray...   :)
>     Free advice, you can't sue me   ;-)
>     YMMV
>     ET
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     Mark Phillips writes:
> 
>      > I have two ide drives in one machine - drive 1 is a Windows drive
>     and drive
>      > 2 is a Linux drive. Using grub, I can boot into either windows or
>     debian. I
>      > want to remove the windows drive and replace it with a larger,
>     blank drive
>      > for backup storage. I have a feeling if I just remove the first
>     drive and
>      > put the new one there, the machine will not boot, since the MBR
>     is probably
>      > on the first drive (it came with the machine, and I just added
>     the second
>      > drive for Linux). My questions:
>      >
>      > 1. How do I change grub on the Linux drive (hdb) to say "the
>     windows drive
>      > is dead, boot here instead, long live linux"?
>      >
>      > 2. Do I move the second drive to the first ide port, or leave it
>     as the
>      > second ide drive and put the new drive in the fist ide port?
>      >
>      > Thanks!
>      >
>      > Mark
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