On Saturday 03 February 2007 16:42, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Saturday 03 February 2007 16:25, Joe Brandt wrote:
> > I have loaded a distro on an external hard drive. Now I can not boot
> > (even internal) unless the external is present. How can I configure Grub
> > to list external if present and ignore if not? At present, I am dropped
> > into a root console (to manually fsck drives) if the drive is not
> > present.
>
> What you did is put the boot decisions on the external drive. When it boots
> it looks for a device to read the bootsector from. When you disconnect the
> external drive it did not find any boot sectors.
>
> However it is easy to fix. Simple get some internal boot device to have
> grub on it. Could even be a USB drive. Then copy the lines that boots from
> the external setup to the internal grub.
>
> The easiest may be to make a minimal install on your internal drive, then
> modify that config file. Don't forget that the first drive is drive 0.
>
> You can play with the boot sequence by pressing e for edit in the menu.
> Then alter the drive number, or whatever, press enter when done and then b
> for boot and it will try this once to boot with your changes. (Try that
> with LILO!)
A clarification. When I say copy the lines I only refer to the three/four
lines that usually makes up the specifics for booting a kernel.
These lines:
title
root (hd0,0)
kernel quiet
initrd
--Steve Szmidt
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