Re: Will not boot after Disk upgrade from hda to sda

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell gmail com>]

Gene Heskett wrote:

> Said another way, if the mobo's bios can't see this new drive, then it 
> obviously cannot boot from it.  This is not a linux problem, but a bios 
> problem.
>
> My current workaround was to move all the stuff from /boot1, the first 
> partition on this sata drive that the F8 install to this drive made, 
> to /boot, the first partition on ide0,0 drive, at which point F8 will boot, 
> using the /VolGroup01 etc on the sata drive as its / drive, and with /boot1 
> as its /boot once its booted.  Weird, as it disconnects the /boot it booted 
> from, but it works.

That's a fairly normal configuration. If you have multiple disks, the
grub install and /boot have to be on bios-enabled drives, but / or the
LVM containing it does not since the kernel drivers are active by the
time you access it.  You probably have duplicate labels on the /boot
partitions, a common problem if you move drives around.  Either change
the labels or fix /etc/fstab to refer to the partition name so the
active /boot partition is mounted for updates, etc.

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  Les Mikesell
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