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

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 14:14 -0500, Erick Perez wrote:
> 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
>         
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didn't work hardly is the type of report that invites clarification.

You might have to adjust the grub.conf because what used to be hd(0,x)
might very well be hd(1,x) etc.

I don't believe that booting a knoppix cd is gonna change anything

Craig