Grub cannot see my new hard drive
I hope I don't create a fight with this.
I booted the Debian netinst disc and installed Linux on /dev/sdb1 as the root partition. My computer is old. The system BIOS does not see this hard drive, nor does Grub, but the Linux kernel does. I'm running the 4.19.0-9-686-pae kernel, #1 SMP Debian 4.19.118-2 and Buster 10.4.0.
The installation program tried to set up Grub on /dev/sda, but since Grub cannot see /dev/sdb the system gets stuck in rescue mode. It sees two hard drives hd0 and hd1, but says both have unknown filesystems. I had to install Linux on a 32 GB USB flash drive just to get my computer to boot. Now I can boot Windows again too. The flash drive is _really_ slow.
Grub has /dev/sdb1 listed as an option, but says the disk does not exist and to load the kernel first, which of course is on the new hard drive partition /dev/sdb1 which I can access just fine after starting the kernel. The catch is that I have to boot the flash drive /dev/sdc1 to do so thus making it the root filesystem.
1) How can I help Grub see and use /dev/sdb1 ?
2) Can I create a CD or USB flash drive with which to boot the computer so it loads the kernel and mounts /dev/sdb1 as the root file system?
3) How long is my flash drive likely to last? Will it wear out as I continue to use it? Will reading from it damage it, or just writing to it?
4) How exactly does Grub work? What is the process, step by step? How do I configure Grub to do what I want? The installation program seems determined to do everything its own way.
Thank you for your assistance in these matters.
name=Matthew%20Campbell&email=trenix25%40pm.me
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