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
Grub info: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 / SolarisFSTABgrub> find /boot/grub/stage1
(hd1,0)# /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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