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Ed Reed

2004-04-14, 4:45 pm

I installed Redhat 9 on an ATA disk. Boots with no problem.
What I desire is to select a boot disk by changing BIOS settings.
I installed a second ATA disk and copied all partitions to the new disk.
However, I'm unable to boot off the new ATA disk.

In a Sun environment I'd use "installboot" to set the boot block
on the new disk and change device names as necessary in fstab.
Is there something similar in a Linux environment?


Robert M. Riches Jr.

2004-04-14, 4:45 pm

In article <0xgfc.9509$k05.5152@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>, \
Ed Reed wrote:
> I installed Redhat 9 on an ATA disk. Boots with no problem.
> What I desire is to select a boot disk by changing BIOS settings.
> I installed a second ATA disk and copied all partitions to the new disk.
> However, I'm unable to boot off the new ATA disk.
>
> In a Sun environment I'd use "installboot" to set the boot block
> on the new disk and change device names as necessary in fstab.
> Is there something similar in a Linux environment?


It would appear you have probably not installed anything in
the boot block/record(s) of the new disk. That would be a
good idea. There are two bootloaders commonly used with RHL
9: Grub and Lilo. Each has a man page that describes (much
better than I could) how to install/use them.

Good luck.

Robert Riches
spamtrap42@verizon.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)
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