Re: install boot sector

On 09/27/2011 05:19 PM, mickey wrote: > F15 > > Setup F15 hard drive on a different computer /dev/sda and sent hard > drive to a friend to put in his computer as /dev/sdb , behind WindowsXp > and went into the rescue mode to run grub-install /dev/sda , getting a > error message; > > "sdc2 Does not have any corresponding BIOS drive". > > There is only two hard drives and a DVDrom in this computer, I can't > understand the sdc2 unless fedora see's this > drive , slave hard drive as sdc2 instead of sdb2 , partition 2 is where > the / partition is for Fedora. > WindowsXP is on Master drive. > > > Hard Drive is recognized by BIOS as a Slave sdb. > > I guess the Device map is different and causing problems, How do I fix > this to get boot sector on /dev/sda > > Can the command grub-install --recheck /dev/sda fix the problem. I thought you have to edit grub.conf so that boot=/dev/sda<<<< Point this to correct drive like /dev/sdb splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz<<< Change this to correct (hd1,0) as an example hiddenmenu default=0 title Fedora (2.6.39.3-1.fc14.i686) root (hd0,1)<<<< Change this to (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.39.3-1.fc14.i686 ro root=/dev/sdb rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us LANG=en_US.UTF-8 nomodeset initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.39.3-1.fc14.i686.img Then you must fix /etc/fstab so that /dev/sdb1 / ext3 defaults 0 0 ...etc.