Re: My 3rd sata drive

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On 06/07/2010 07:03 PM, noi ance wrote:
On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:14:55 -0400, nomail typed this message:



What you're doing is fine, it's just that I gave it up when I got lazy
and hungry for simple things. At one time I had 8 drives with all of
them having over a dozen bootable partitions and booting any of them
from the hd0 mbr :-)

What I'm asking is what does your /boot/grub/menu.lst look like

That only gets written by the system when the installer or a system
script installs grub.

Here's mine (default second config but note the root= and resume=
specifications) :


default 2
timeout 8
##YaST - generic_mbr
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/message
##YaST - activate

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title Desktop -- openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.31.12-0.2
..........




I'm suggesting the menu specified does not match the physical
connections. Although "/disk/by-id/ata-ST3300620AS_5QF09JXR-part2" is
on my /dev/sdc as /dev/sdc2 it is specified as the boot device. I think
your root= still points to your 500Gb drive, ie, as /dev/sda instead of
the desired 2TB /dev/sdc.

Not sure how you've specified a root=/dev/sda12 didn't think you could
have that many partitions, or where that partition is located.





---------------------------------------------
My currently used grub menu file located on the fat #6 data partition as
/boot/user/menu.boo
---------------------------------------------

# Grub-0.9x menu file: Dusks AND partitions begin with 0 !!
color white/blue yellow/black
#color yellow/black white/green
#color white/green yellow/black
#color cyan/blue white/blue
default 0 # default is first entry (starts with 0)
timeout 1200 # autoboot in ... seconds
####################### grub screen width scale ###########################
title disk 2tb-A file: /boot/user/menu.boo
root
title all linux systems: visitor login & password "visit", enter
"startx"
root

title Suse-11.2 OP reiser sda1
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 vga=0x31a splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd


title Windows-7 fat32lba sda2
hide (hd0,1)
hide (hd0,2)
unhide (hd0,1)
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

title Windows-XP fat32lba sda3
hide (hd0,1)
hide (hd0,2)
unhide (hd0,2)
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1


title Suse-103 OP reiser sda7
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7 vga=0x31a splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd


title Suse-111 & NEXT reiser sda8
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda8 vga=0x31a splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd


title Debian-5 Gnome OP reiser sda9
root (hd0,8)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda9 vga=0x31a splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd

#####################################################################

title Suse-112 STERILE DISCONNECT!! reiser sda10
root (hd0,9)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda10 vga=0x31a splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd


title Suse-103 STERILE DISCONNECT!! reiser sda11
root (hd0,10)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda11 vga=0x31a splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd

title Suse-111 STERILE DISCONNECT!! reiser sda12
root (hd0,11)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda12 vga=0x31a splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd


title Debian-5 STERILE DISCONNECT!! reiser sda13
root (hd0,12)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda13 vga=0x31a splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd

# 640x400 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 1600x1200
# 4 bits | ? ? 0x302 ? ? ? ?
# 8 bits | 0x300 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307 0x31C
# 15 bits | ? 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319 0x31D
# 16 bits | ? 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A 0x31E
# decimal | d785 d788 d791
# 24 bits | ? 0x312 0x315 0x318 ? 0x31B 0x31F
# decimal | d786 d789 d792
# 32 bits | ? ? ? ? 0x164 ?













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Below that is the grub2 menu file from one of the Debian partitions that
offer it. I had this set up just so I could start warming up to grub 2.
It is not in use.
-------------------------------------------

#
#
# Grub2 menu file: partitions begin with 1 !!!!!!!!!!!
# Standard location is /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
#
# Don'tforget to park copy in all /boot/grub
#
#
set default=0 # default is first entry (starts with 0)
set timeout=1200 # autoboot in ... seconds
set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
set menu_color_highlight=white/blue

menuentry "Debian Experimental grub2 reiser part-2" {
set root=(hd0,2)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=/dev/sda2 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
}

menuentry "Debian Experimental grub2 (single) reiser part-2" {
set root=(hd0,2)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=/dev/sda2 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
}

menuentry "Windows-XP fat32lba part-3" {
set root=(hd0,3)
}


menuentry "Debian 5.0.0 Operational reiser part-6" {
set root=(hd0,6)
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd
}

menuentry "Debian 5.0.0 Fix & Test reiser part-7" {
set root=(hd0,7)
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7 splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd
}


menuentry "Debian 5.0.0 STERILE reiser part-8" {
set root=(hd0,8)
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda8 splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd
}


# with this species we'll again have to standardize using actual
# kernel and initrd copies (no links) anywhere except where the
# system also writes its thingies


menuentry "Suse 11.1 Operational reiser part-9" {
set root=(hd0,9)
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda9 splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd
}

menuentry "Suse 11.1 Fix & Test reiser part-10" {
set root=(hd0,10)
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda10 splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd
}

menuentry "Suse 11.1 STERILE reiser part-11" {
set root=(hd0,11)
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda11 splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd
}



##############



#
title Windows-1 (for p2p) sda1
#lock
hide (hd0,0)
hide (hd0,1)
hide (hd0,2)
hide (hd0,4)
hide (hd0,4)################## grub boot menu
###############
color white/red white/black
#color yellow/black white/cyan
#color white/green white/black
#color white/blue
default 0 # default is first entry (starts with 0)
timeout 1200 # autoboot in ... seconds
####################### grub screen width scale ###########
hide (hd0,5)
hide (hd0,6)
unhide (hd0,0)
unhide (hd0,4)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
#
title Windows-2 (internet) sda2
#lock
hide (hd0,0)
hide (hd0,1)
hide (hd0,2)
hide (hd0,4)
hide (hd0,5)
hide (hd0,6)
unhide (hd0,1)
unhide (hd0,4)
unhide (hd0,5)
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
#
title Windows-3 (workshop) sda3
#lock
hide (hd0,0)
hide (hd0,1)
hide (hd0,2)
hide (hd0,4)
hide (hd0,5)
hide (hd0,6)
unhide (hd0,2)
unhide (hd0,4)
unhide (hd0,5)
unhide (hd0,6)
rootnoverify (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1
#
title Debian 40r1-a64 ext3 sda9
root (hd0,8)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-amd64 root=/dev/sda9 vga=0x31a splash=0 3 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-5-amd64
#
title Suse 103-i586 LAST reiser sda10
root (hd0,9)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda10 vga=0x31a splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd
#
title Suse 103-i586 ON hd2!!! reiser sdb10
root (hd1,9)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb10 vga=0x31a splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd

#
title Suse 11.0-i586 NEW reiser sda11
root (hd0,10)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda11 vga=0x31a splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd
#
title Suse 11.0-i586 STERILE reiser sda12
root (hd0,11)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda12 vga=0x31a splash=0 3
initrd /boot/initrd
#




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