A boot problem

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:55:18PM -0500, Mike Westkamper wrote:
> 
> I am working on a system that has both SCSI and IDE drives.
> 
> I've been working on getting Fedora to recognize the SCSI controller. Fedora
> is loaded on the IDE drive. I have been booting from it for some time.
> Finally the system recognizes the SCSI controller.
> 
> Now some weirdness...
> 
> The BIOS boots the IDE Drive. GRUB starts the boot process from the IDE
> drive. Somewhere along the way it switches to the first SCSI drive, which
> has on old version of Linux on it. It gets real messy from there on.

It could be that the linux partitions on the scsi drive have the same labels
as the ones on the ide drive.

Try to specify the root partition by hardware device, not label.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha