[lug] GRUB

[Shannon Johnston]

Can you install the system w/ only hdb present? That at least gets GRUB
on the boot sector of the second disk.

Shannon


On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 17:27, rm at fabula.de wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:37:07PM +0000, Stephen Queen wrote:
> > I am working on an embedded system that has 2 hard drives, hda and hdb. 
> > There is only one partition on each. They are both on ide0. hda is the 
> > master, hdb is the slave. I would like to install grub such that if hda 
> > is missing hdb will boot. If hda is present, then the system boots from 
> > it. I believe that the bios supports this. If it does, how do I setup 
> > grub so that this will occur? I have no problem installing it on hda, it 
> > is hdb that doesn't seem to work. Is this even possible?
> 
> On what harddisk do you install the grub bootloader?
> 
>  Ralf Mattes
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Steve
> > 
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