Re: changing the MBR for a dual-bootup system
On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 18:17 +0200, jdkaye10@yahoo.es wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am running Debian Etch 2.6.15-1-686 on an Asus motherboard with an AMD64
> chip. Etch is running on /dev/hda. I wanted to try out the 64bit kernel so
> I installed a second HD /dev/hdb and installed Sid amd64 from scratch. I
> didn't want to get involved in chroot type stuff which is why I did it this
> way. Both systems use grub but the MBR is pointing to /dev/hdb for the
> menu.1st file. When I upgraded the kernel on the Etch 686 system of course
> I had to copy the newly created menu.1st item from Etch to the menu.1st
> file on Sid amd64 in order for it to show up on the grub menu on bootup.
> That was ok for a while but now I'm getting disk errors on /dev/hdb. I can
> still boot into Etch ok but I would like to change things so that the MBR
> looks at /dev/hda instead of /dev/hdb. I may have to replace the hdb drive
> if reformatting and reinstalling Sid amd64 don't clear up the problems.
>
> Can someone tell me how to tell grub to ignore /dev/hdb and look at /dev/hda
> for the bootup menu?
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
> Jonathan
>
Maybe ´grub-install --root-directory=/dev/hda /dev/hda´ has the desired effect.
Regards
--
Andreas Glaeser <aglaeser@arcor.de>
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