Re: GRUB with IDE and SCSI disk

[Frank Elsner <Elsner zrz TU-Berlin DE>]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:29:59 -0500 (EST) Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> One of my systems has an IDE disk and a SCSI disk.  I upgraded the IDE 
> disk and I need to reinstall grub.  /boot is in /dev/sda1, but the system 
> boots off of /dev/hda.
> 
> I've tried various things to install GRUB on the new /dev/hda, but 
> everything results in a complaint during boot that
> 
> Error 21: Selected disk does not exist.

If you boot from IDE your /boot/grub/devices should list

      (hd0)     /dev/hda
      (hd1)     /dev/sda


--Frank Elsner