[NTLUG:Discuss] Grub assistance
Mike LaPlante
mike at dividia.net
Tue Jan 22 15:20:48 CST 2008
Okay, I have a Fedora 7 system that has /dev/sda as a windows drive, and
/dev/sdb as linux. However, I haven't booted the windows drive in over a
year so I was wanting to pull that drive out of the system.
My concern is that this will piss off grub. I'm thinking before I do
that I need to change some lines in grub. I'm just not sure which ones I
need to mess with. Also wonder if I need to mess with fdisk and change
the boot partition.
Here is my current grub.conf
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# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd1,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.23.12-52.fc7)
root (hd1,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-52.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/1 noapic
initrd /initrd-2.6.23.12-52.fc7.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
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And here is the output of fdisk -l
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Disk /dev/sda: 61.4 GB, 61471162368 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7473 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3824 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14589 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 6374 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 6375 6387 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 6388 6648 2096482+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb4 6649 14589 63786082+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 6649 14589 63786051 83 Linux
Note it appears I left an NTFS partition on the second drive. I forgot
all about that until just now. >.<
So do I need to change the commented out boot=/dev/sda in grub? No idea
why its commented out, I've never touched the file. And I think I would
need to change the root lines to root (hd0,1) or something like that?
Thanks
Mike
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