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Re: new disk results in boot problem



On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 12:01 +0200, nicals wahlgren wrote:
> Normally I am using one sata disk, no problem to boot from it. (using 
> amd64 and sid, kernel 2.6.21.2-amd64)
> But when I add another sata or ide disk from old Debian systems the 
> system ends up in initramfs.
> BIOS still says it boots from original disk.
> 
> How do I keep the system to boot from original sata disk when adding 
> more disks?

A bit more info is required

a) when you have only one disk what is its device (/dev/sda?)

b) how do you connect the 2nd disk (primary slave?)

c) with both disks what are their respective devices?

d) what does your GRUB entry say

e) what bootlog error msgs do you get



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