help changing from lilo to grub

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Mar 3 19:08:56 UTC 2008


On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 05:14:08PM -0500, Neil Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:36:09PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >
> >What is in device.map?
> (fd0)	/dev/fd0
> (hd0)	/dev/hda
> (hd1)	/dev/hdb
> >
> >What is hda?
> 
> hda is a legacy drive.
> 
> >Who deals with jumping to boot to the second HD to start grub?
> 
> hda was an old running linux. I  migrated to hdb.  I still use the old
> drive but as second tier storage.

So a boot loader in the MBR of hda chainloads the boot loader on hdb to
start grub then?

Seems odd.

Did you change the boot order in the bios instead?

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