Need Help Editing Grub

[Mark Phillips]

I am confused by the
>     grub
>     root (hd1,0)
>     root (hd1)
>     It should answer that it found the stages, verify that there are no
>     errors.
>     quit

What does this do? man grub and info grub are not very helpful.

Mark

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:

> "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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