GRUB problems - cloned partitions from SCSI drive to IDE

From: Steve Christall (spam_at_clear.net.nz)
Date: 08/30/03 

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 12:43:36 +0100

Hi.

I have just spent several hours playing around with this, and I am unable to
get it to work, would appreciate help!
I have Redhat8 and WinXP installed on a Promise SX4000 (h/w raid5)
This works fine ... it is installed like this

/dev/sda1 winxp (ntfs)
/dev/sda2 /boot (ext3)
/dev/sda3 / (ext3)

I cloned this to an IDE drive (sec master) using Ghost2003

/dev/hdc1 winxp (ntfs)
/dev/hdc2 /boot (ext3)
/dev/hdc3 / (ext3)

I want to leave the raid drive plugged in, and boot from the IDE drive. I
changed the boot order in the bios so that it boots from the ide drive
instead of the scsi device. When restarting I get GRUB up and then it
freezes. I booted from my RH install CD and used recovery mode. I
reinstalled grub on hdc.

Now I can boot into grub using hdc, but when I select RH, it continues to
load from my raid drive (sda) .... I thought that the drives in grub are
referenced based on the order they come from the bios, so I don't have to
change anything in the grub.conf?

Any ideas?

Cheers
Steve

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