[ILUG] RedHat Fedora Core 3 Installation Gotchas...

[Timothy Murphy]

On Sunday 12 December 2004 14:34, Gareth Eason wrote:

> - If you have a mix of SCSI and IDE drives, the installation process is
>    quite likely to put the SCSI drives at the end of the chain when it
>    writes the grub.conf file. Upon reboot, however, the SCSI drives go to
>    the start - and thus the bootloader cannot find where to boot from.
> - There is a simple fix (thankfully.) If you are booting off SCSI (as I
>    was) simply change the following lines to point at the correct disk:
> - "splashimage=(hd2,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz"
>    should become --> "splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz"
>    (Your numbers might be different, but it's always the first number
>    (the disk number) that will be wrong.)
> - title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.681_FC3)
>          root (hd0,0)
>          kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/1
>          initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.img
>    THE "root (hd2,0)" line should become "root (hd0,0)"
>    (Your numbers might be different, but it's always the first number
>    (the disk number) that will be wrong.)

I had a similar problem with a SCSI+IDE machine,
but in my case I solved it by editing /boot/grub/devices.map .

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