[WBEL-users] Grub install on an IDE Hard Disk

[Erick Perez]

didnt work. i will use knopixx and try some other thing...

On 8/18/05, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: 
> 
> On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 11:24 -0500, Erick Perez wrote:
> > Hi, i have a Dell poweredge (very old) server that only boots from
> > SCSI hard disks. It uses WB3 respin 2.
> > Now I added an IDE disk and everytime I boot i only get a "grub>"
> > command line. I think I have tried to reinstall the MBR portion
> > without success. It seems that my Dell system is trying to boot from
> > the IDEs first. I have no BIOS option to force boot from the SCSIs.
> >
> > What is the procedure to move the bootloader to the IDE and then point
> > to my /dev/sda5 to boot?
> -----
> boot from WBEL CD
> 
> 'linux rescue' # add to boot command when you boot cd
> 
> chroot /mnt/sysimage
> 
> grub-install /dev/hda
> 
> Should be good to go
> 
> Craig
> 
> 


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Erick Perez
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