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Thread: Two Drives, Removing Windows, Promoting Linux

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    Two Drives, Removing Windows, Promoting Linux

    I'll try to do the synopsis justice.
    I have had two internal SATA drives for a while. Primary with XP and Secondary with Hardy. Successful dual booting has existed harmoniously for over a year and it's time to finally demote the XP drive to USB to make room for a larger backup drive. I can't get the second drive (My long time Hardy Drive) to boot when I remove the XP drive. I've used SuperGrub to remove and reinstall grub on the second drive, tried it in bay 1 or bay 2 with no success. Clearly I'm missing something.

    Reinstalling isn't an option. I intend to keep the XP drive bootable (probably with SGD) but for all intents and purposes, it need not show up in the grub menu from now on.

    Here's sfdisk -l

    Disk /dev/sda: 9726 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
    Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

    Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
    /dev/sda1 0+ 6 7- 56196 de Dell Utility
    /dev/sda2 * 7 9273 9267 74437177+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/sda3 9274 9724 451 3622657+ db CP/M / CTOS / ...
    start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,0,1)
    /dev/sda4 9725 9725 1 8032+ 83 Linux

    Disk /dev/sdb: 48641 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
    Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

    Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
    /dev/sdb1 * 0+ 47267 47268- 379680178+ 83 Linux
    /dev/sdb2 47268 48640 1373 11028622+ 5 Extended
    /dev/sdb3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
    /dev/sdb4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
    /dev/sdb5 47268+ 48640 1373- 11028591 82 Linux swap / Solaris
    Grub info:
    grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
    (hd1,0)
    FSTAB
    # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
    #
    # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
    proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
    # /dev/sdb1
    UUID=d5fd3a1c-97f7-4e79-9fce-34f3f5256db5 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
    # /dev/sdb5
    UUID=5717a912-f14e-4d91-b107-84b329c9d40c none swap sw 0 0
    /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

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    Smile [Resolved:] Two Drives, Removing Windows, Promoting Linux

    Do this:

    Backup menu.lst
    Use Super Grub to delete Grub.
    Remove Windows Hard drive.
    Boot Live CD and reinstall Grub
    Reboot
    If fail, boot with Super Grub
    Edit menu.lst to match your results from Grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 (See link above)

    Enjoy

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