There is floppy and DVD drive. I ran /usr/sbin/grub-install --root-directory=/vol /dev/sdb1 got the following response: /dev/sdb1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive presumably because I have not yet switched the drives in BIOS. I just tried to boot on sda1 with root on sdb1. It refuses, saying the automatic fsck did not work, put root in read-only, wants a manual fsck. sdb1 does not appear in df. /etc/fstab issue? That file is as usual (/dev/sda1 /, /dev/sdb1 /vol). Christian Zimmermann FIGUGEGL! Department of Economics University of Connecticut 341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063 Storrs, CT 06269-1063 http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/ christian.zimmermann@uconn.edu http://ideas.repec.org/e/pzi1.html On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Thomas Krichel wrote:
Christian Zimmermann writes
The drive is marked as bootable (cfdisk).
And you ran grub-install? This was what I did here to get wombat to boot from its harddrive, rather than from trabbi's. If you exchange the disks, you fire up the bios a few times, you get no grub screen, then I don't know what do do except try to install a fresh debian on sdb, but hell, there is the usb 1.0 and no floppy drive I guess?
Damn!
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