Re: grub repartition problem

[Bryan Dunn]

Hi David,

  Yes, I only have one disk in the system. Here are my device.map and 
grub.conf files:



# this device map was generated by anaconda
(fd0)     /dev/fd0
(hd0)     /dev/hda#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,9)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)
        root (hd0,9)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
title Win2kPro
        rootnoverify (hd0,1)
        chainloader +1


Despite the fact that my grub.conf specifies (hd0,9), grub still wants 
to find it's info on (hd0,5) upon boot. I manually have to tell it that 
it's root is (hd0,9), then it works fine.

   Thanks again,
        Bryan


David Balazic wrote:
> Bryan Dunn wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> >        I made a mistake. I had installed red hat 8 on my laptop and had
> > everything working fine with the grub boot loader. I took the default
> > install (and I'm not sure where that installs grub). To give myself more
> > swap, I repartitioned my HD, causing /dev/hd6, which was my linux
> > partition, to move to /dev/hda10. Now when I boot, grub thinks that
> > /dev/hda6 (hd0,5) is the boot partition, which it is not. I have to
> > maually give it the boot partition (root (hd0,9)) and then a config file
> > (/boot/grub/grub.conf). My grub.conf has the correct settings, but upon
> > boot, I think grub tries to read another config file. What do I need to
> > do to save my settings in grub so when I boot, it just gives me the
> > splash screen? I thought the default install put grub in /dev/hda1
> > (which is a windows partiton) and not the MBR, am I mistaken?
>
>
> /boot/grub/grub.conf ?
> /boot/grub/device.map ?
>
> Do you have only one disk in the system ?



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