Changing grub from mbr to hdb1

cj pangilinan cjpangilinan at gmail.com
Sat Apr 2 03:12:25 UTC 2005


take a look at "info grub". i think there's a procedure of drive
swapping, w/c fools bios to see hdb as hda.. i can't remember...

On Apr 2, 2005 10:02 AM, Trey Sizemore <trey at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 09:36:43 +0800, rpowersau at gmail.com said:
> > On Apr 2, 2005 9:19 AM, Trey Sizemore <trey at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > > I have 2 IDE drives installed on my machine.  While installing Ubuntu,
> > > it didn't ask me where to install grub and did so in the MBR.  I use GAG
> > > for my boot loader and need Ubuntu to install grub on hdb1 (I installed
> > > ubuntu with / and /home partitions on hdb1 and hdb2 respectively).  How
> > > can I change this so grub is loaded on hdb1?
> >
> > You could just unplug the other drive then install ubuntu. When your
> > done, boot ubuntu and modify /boot/grub/menu.lst  to hd1. Then
> > shutdown, plug the first drive back in, and boot.
> >
> > What is GAG?
> >
> GAG is a bootloader.  I would imagine there has to be some way to just
> 're-install' grub where I need on hdb1.
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