Changing boot drive

Kristian Erik Hermansen kristian.hermansen at gmail.com
Sun Feb 17 22:49:07 EST 2008


On Feb 17, 2008 6:18 PM,  <d.lapointe at comcast.net> 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
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