Can't boot a second HDD on slave

Sasha Tsykin stsykin at gmail.com
Sun Jan 22 14:36:17 UTC 2006


J.Markoll wrote:

> Hello,
> When booting I get Grub Error 21: can't find the HDD.
>
> The HDD's are IDE, the one that boots is Hda on master
> the second one is just behind. The Grub (and kernel)that boots is in
> /boot/grub/menu.lst inside the / partition.

Is it in the / of /dev/hda or /dev/hdb? because it might be that it's in 
the wrong hard drive. It should be on /dev/hda (I think)

>
> I've got:
> =-=-=-==-=-=
> The text bloc I added in /boot/grub/menu.lst for this second HDD:
>
> title        Edubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-9-386
> root        (hd1,1)
> kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386 root=/dev/hdb2 ro quiet
> initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386
> savedefault
> boot

this seems ok

> Thanks a lot for help, Joyce Markoll.
>
Sasha




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