Bug#265912: Debian Bugs information: logs for Bug#265912

[doug jensen <djen@ispwest.com>]

Hi Christian,

[Christian wrote:]
> I have an IDE and a SCSI harddisk in my system. I wiped out the SCSI disk and
> installed Debian there. When the boot loader was installed, it wrote the
> boot block on the IDE disk, not giving me any chance to write to the SCSI disk
> instead. Maybe this is the right thing, the machine boots, since it tried to
> boot from IDE first, but since Debian is installed on the SCSI disk, it would
> be nice to have the option to install grub on the SCSI disk, in case I remove
> the IDE disk or change the boot order. I have never used grub before, I do not
> see a config file, how do I tell grub now to write the MBR to sda?

I did an install very similar to yours and had similar results, but with
two IDE drives.  When writing the MBR, I was thinking that just the
one drive was plugged in, or that the new drive was the first.

Have you had a chance to look at the grub-doc package?  There are a
couple of ways to get your SCSI drive booting and I think grub-doc will
help you determine what to do.  I've had good experiences when using grub,
it's easy to have lots of booting options, once you get it setup the way
you like.

> I can not mount the CD-Rom. mount /cdrom can not find /cdrom. /media/cdrom
> does not work either, /media/cdrom0 say the mount point does not exist.
> /media/cdrom is a link to cdrom0, but this does not exist, which is what
> gnome tells me when I try to mount the CD-Rom from gnome.

Since you didn't quite have a sucessful install, I'm assuming that this
part of your comment is referring to your original IDE drive (not the
new sarge install).  If that is the case, have you tried adding the /cdrom
mount point back into your /etc/fstab?  That's what I needed to do to
get dselect working again, after my install that was similar to yours.


-- 
Doug Jensen