This sounds like a simple - but nevertheless tricky - cable-&-jumper puzzle; if "new drive" is master and sits on the first IDE connector of the motherboard, then "old drive":
- either must be jumpered "master" when it sits on the second MoBo IDE connector; it's the "second primary" disk in this case - though note that it can be "seen" by the BIOS if it's jumpered as "slave" (in this case, however, I don't know enough about GRUB's behaviour, and if it does accept this situation - LILO does), - or must be jumpered "slave" when it sits at the intermediary connector on the cable from the 1.st IDE MoBo connector to the "new drive" which should be then at the _far_ end of that cable (and "new HD" _must_ be jumpered "DS/master" in this case, not (mostly) factory set "CS"(cable select)". Hmm - how did you manage to "transfer files" when both drives were indeed plugged in ? (Was that when you told the BIOS to boot from "D" - presumably the "old HD" - and not from "C" ? This would work to boot from the "old", as some BIOSes are a bit more forgiving and just take _any_ "next" HD they find as "D" after a first/primary "C". [It's your headache to sort out the Linux drive/partinion names thereafter, <bg>.) // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2003-08-21 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
