Re: Changing boot drive

["Jonathan Arnold" <user=619@nabble.blu.org>]

 Randy Cole wrote: 
> Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
>> On Feb 17, 2008 6:18 PM,  <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>>   
>>> I installed Fedora 8 on a new sata drive some time ago and I would 
>>> like to retire the older pata drive, but it seems that the system 
>>> boots from the older drive. I found this out by swapping the boot 
>>> drive in the BIOS, which went nowhere. 
>>> 
>>> Can this be fixed with grub? Or using the rescue option on the 
>>> installation DVD? 
>>>     
>> 
>> >From any Live CD: 
>> # grub-install /dev/sda 
>>   
> (ignore my previous reply...) 
> 
> I've had the same problem as David a number of times, and it drives me 
> bananas as each time I have to figure out which boot record to write to, 
> what grub calls each hard drive, copy the menu.lst from backup and 
> manually edit it, figure out where the grub stage binary library is so I 
> can type it on the command line.