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Re: grub 2 problems ??



On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:26 AM, steef <debian.linux@home.nl> wrote:
>
> for years (from potato/woody on) i have mounted 3 hd' s in my machine
> (independently installed from each other with debian, somtimes slackware
> and/or gentoo) from one specific hd with/after the command #mkdir /mnt/sdx,
> mnt/sdy etc.  and in fstab  /dev/sdx  /mnt/sdx ext3 user  0  0 && (to keep
> it simple). on each hd i had a bootloader (lilo and later grub) installed.
>
> with grub2 as bootloader under squeeze i cannot mount other hd's anymore
> when independently on the *other* hd' s a bootloader (grub2) in the mbr is
> installed. without installing grub2 in the mbr of a sata-hd the hd on which
> i am mounting *does* recognize the other hd *with the exception of (old) ata
> hd's.
>
> my question: what do i miss if anything? or is this normal for the new grub?
> is there anything to do about this? has this got to do with UUID-numbers?

I assume that by "mount" you mean "boot from".

What's the output of "os-prober"?


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