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On Monday 01 June 2009, Rob Beard wrote: > alexfido@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Posted by "Alex Mclennan" <alexfido@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > hi to all,can some one help please,my machine is a 2.66 intel quad core > > with 160gb hd and 4 gb ram. my problem is that i have xp on the main sata > > hd and have just installed mepis 8 on an ide hd which is in a caddy. > > when i installed mepis i disconnected the sata drive just to make sure > > nothing untoward happened to that,the mepis boots up great on its own but > > as soon as i reconnect the sata drive and press f8 to bring up the boot > > menu,chose the ide drive it goes to the opening mepis screen, i select > > that and the load screen appears but will go no further. if i select the > > sata it boots into xp no problem. > > i only use xp to play 1 online game and watch a bit of 4od,im loathe to > > install mepis with the sata attached as it caused major problems last > > time i tried,any help much appreciated. alex the noob 01395576780 > > (sidmouth) > > Hmm, I wonder if it's because the SATA drive wasn't installed when Mepis > was installed. Not used Mepis Linux but if it's anything like Ubuntu > then it may label the IDE drives as /dev/sdX rather than /dev/hdX. If > this is the case and Mepis is looking for it's installation on /dev/sda1 > then it may be finding the Windows XP partition and then getting confused. > > I think you would have been better off in leaving the SATA drive > installed when installing Mepis, that way you should have been able to > select the IDE drive as the destination drive when you installed. The > only changes in theory to the SATA drive would have been the > installation of Grub. > > Anyway, to fix this, for starters I'd suggest booting into Mepis and > then copy and paste the contents of your /etc/fstab into an e-mail and > send it to the list. That way we can see if it mounts partitions on > device id's or UUID numbers? > > Rob Hi Alex, You have confused your poor little 'puter with this one. Usually Mepis calls your drives eg sda1, sda2 and sdb1, sdb2 for 2 drives with 2 partions each. During install it looks for what is already there and generates a grub menu with the new Mepis as default and any other OS as an alternative. By disconnecting the XP drive a grub menu must have been generated with no alternative. BUT when you installed with only the caddy drive, this would have been called sda1. When you then reconnected and rebooted the XP drive would have been called sda1 and the caddy drive sdb1 and the poor old grub would have nowhere to go. You could rewrite the grub menu but I suspect the easiest thing to do as Rob says, is to reinstall with everything connected as it should be. I've run Mepis for a few years now and have found it's install very reliable. As my old Dad used to say, "Bad grub will always come back to haunt you in the night". George -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html