On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:42:54 -0700, Mark Phillips
<m...@phillipsmarketing.biz> 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
Here are some links discussing reinstalling grub.
The 1st disk begins with 0 zero, not one.
So IDE Disk 1 partition 1 is hd0,0
IDE disk 2 partition 3 is hd1,2
http://www.sorgonet.com/linux/grubrestore/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351
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