Sid Boyce escribió: > Felix Miata wrote: >> On 2007/08/29 04:25 (GMT+0100) Sid Boyce apparently typed: >> >>> I had a failing IDE HD as /dev/sda, so I installed 10.3 on a new SATA >>> drive /dev/sdb and was booting from it until I removed /dev/sda. The >>> SATA drive is now /dev/sda, but it won't boot, just the cursor on the >>> top of the screen. >>> Booted from DVD to rescue, altered fstab and menu.lst was changed >>> from (hd1,0) to (hd0,0), still won't boot and grub commands give >>> unrecognised device string errors. >>> menu.lst now says >>> gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message >>> No luck. >> >> Rescue isn't as easy as it used to be. The solution in >> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2007-04/msg00048.html might be >> your solution. > > Did all that, /dev/disk/by-* tree is sound, looked up "info grub" and > "info grub-install", nothing makes any sense. > # grub-install /dev/sda1 > # grub-install /dev/sda > # grub-install (hd0) > # grub-install (hd0,0) > grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) > grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,0) > and other combinations using /dev/sda and /de/sda1 all give "Error 12: > Invalid device requested". > The odd thing is that when I had the IDE drive installed (/dev/sda) with > the SATA (/dev/sdb), it booted off /dev/sdb, after removing the IDE > drive, it refused to boot. "fdisk -l /dev/sda" shows the bootable flag > on /dev/sda1. I have / and a swap partition on the drive. > I can't think of any incantation that will make grub do anything. > /dev/disk/by-id: > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 240 Aug 29 11:13 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 Aug 29 12:02 ../ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 29 11:14 > ata-WDC_WD3200AAKS-22SBA0_WD-WCAPZ1455963 -> ../../sda > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 > ata-WDC_WD3200AAKS-22SBA0_WD-WCAPZ1455963-part1 -> ../../sda1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 > ata-WDC_WD3200AAKS-22SBA0_WD-WCAPZ1455963-part2 -> ../../sda2 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 29 11:14 edd-int13_dev80 -> ../../sda > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 edd-int13_dev80-part1 -> ../../sda1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 edd-int13_dev80-part2 -> ../../sda2 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 29 11:14 > scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCAPZ1455963 -> ../../sda > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 > scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCAPZ1455963-part1 -> ../../sda1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 > scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WCAPZ1455963-part2 -> ../../sda2 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 29 11:14 > usb-HP_Photosmart_C4180_MY6CMH72JX04J7-0:0 -> ../../sdb > > /dev/disk/by-path: > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 140 Aug 29 11:13 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 Aug 29 12:02 ../ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 29 11:14 > pci-0000:00:02.1-usb-0:2.3:1.3-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> ../../sdb > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 29 11:14 pci-0000:00:04.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> > ../../sr0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 29 11:14 pci-0000:00:05.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 -> > ../../sda > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 > pci-0000:00:05.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part1 -> ../../sda1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 > pci-0000:00:05.0-scsi-0:0:0:0-part2 -> ../../sda2 > > /dev/disk/by-uuid: > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Aug 29 11:13 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 Aug 29 12:02 ../ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 > 85d24d84-6169-4acd-8b05-0d4283199835 -> ../../sda1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 29 11:14 > e99d0381-afb9-4678-93bb-14f9afd27247 -> ../../sda2 > > Regards > Sid.
Shouldn't be necessary because you switch the disks, but, did you check device.map ? Regards. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
