Originally Posted by
kdfuller
Are you using the 80 gb as /home or are you not setting up a separate /home partition? Also is your bios boot order set to boot the drive you made the boot partition on first? That could be your problem.
No, the 80gb is not set as /home, it isn't even set to auto mount at start, I just had it in there cuz it has my music and my instalation of WoW. I had planned on coppying over the data I wanted to my partitions and then reformatting that drive, throwing in my 3 sata 320's and raid 5 them, move music and data I want protected there. That is the end goal. I just had to do it in steps because I do not want over heat my pc. Bad cooling atm (well it would be if I had all 6 drives in there.) I have already coppied over the WoW installation, but will still need to copy over my music b4 I can reformat the drive. WoW is working, so I do have a fully functioning install of Ubuntu 8.04, just have to load it strangely.
The scsi drive with the /boot partition (/dev/sda1) is set as the boot device. I manually (via 'F8' option) select my 80gb as the one to boot at the moment, then I use my modified menu.lst to bood the 2 scsi drives (/dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb2) with root=/dev/md0 which works fine.
The /boot partition of the scsi drive (/dev/sda1 - which is not raided) will not let me boot into a working OS. I think at the moment that it tells me no OS found (I am at work and can't verify) I had done some more modifying of the grub files there to try to get it to load. I guess if you could tell me how to re-install grub to my scsi /boot (/dev/sda1) drive, that may fix the problem. I have looked for how to install grub and have not been able to manually install it to the /boot. since as I said above I can get it to boot using the older 80gb drive's bootloader.
I can copy / paste any files u might want to see when I get home.
The way I have tried to install grub has basically been the same every time
Code:
grub
>device (hd#) /dev/sdX
>root (hd#,#)
>setup (hd#)
>quit
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