[PLUG] Need Help Editing Grub
Mark Phillips
mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
Mon Jan 25 16:05:27 UTC 2010
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Fred James <fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net>wrote:
> Mark Phillips wrote:
> > I have two ide drives in one machine - drive 1 is a Windows drive and
> drive
> > 2 is a Linux drive. Using grub, I can boot into either windows or debian.
> I
> > want to remove the windows drive and replace it with a larger, blank
> drive
> > for backup storage. I have a feeling if I just remove the first drive and
> > put the new one there, the machine will not boot, since the MBR is
> probably
> > on the first drive (it came with the machine, and I just added the second
> > drive for Linux). My questions:
> >
> > 1. How do I change grub on the Linux drive (hdb) to say "the windows
> drive
> > is dead, boot here instead, long live linux"?
> >
> > 2. Do I move the second drive to the first ide port, or leave it as the
> > second ide drive and put the new drive in the fist ide port?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Mark
> >
> Mark Phillips
> Opportunity knocks? Maybe. Assuming you are not going to do anything
> with the MS drive anyway ...
> the MB has primary and secondary IDE connectors, and each will
> handle a master and a slave (2) drives - that makes 4 (not counting
> floppy because that is a different connector)
>
Actually, there are only 2 ide drive slots available and 2 sata drive slots
> do you have space on that arrangement for another IDE drive?
>
No, only two slots
> ... if so ...
> add the drive there and you're in.
>
Would have done that if I could have...;-)
> ... if no ...
> add an extra IDE connector or two (via a pci card)
>
Why spend the money? I don't need the tiny (40GB) Widows drive on a Linux
backup server. It is old, slow, and small.
> add the drive there and you're in.
> ... in either case, your mess factor is reduced and you can still boot
> MS - or is that something you wanted to ditch anyway? If so ...
> add the new drive as in one of the above
> format the MS drive to give yourself even more extra Linux space
>
The 40 GBs are not enough for backups, so I have a new ide drive (250 GB)
for backups.
> Hope that helps
>
Thanks for your thoughts,
Mark
> Regards
> Fred James
>
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