[Mageia-discuss] Boot loader advice please

[Anne Wilson]

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On 28/08/12 13:02, Goh Lip wrote:
> On 08/28/2012 07:49 PM, Goh Lip wrote:
> 
>> o when installing boot loader, ...... If the 'master drive' is
>> not sda, but something else, go to MCC and reinstall boot loader
>> to the right one, ie., specify 'sdb' or 'sdc' (the right one).
> . . .
> 
>> Finally, should you remove sda, sdb or sdc, watch out for the
>> above 2 points again.
> 
> There is a trick that we install boot/loaders to *ALL* disks so
> that we do not run into this problem, ie. at MCC, we install
> boot-loader to sdb, sdc, sdd and *again* to sda.
> 
> Still, need to watch out for manually changing
> 
> kernel (hdx,1)/boot/.... initrd (hdx,1)/boot/.....
> 
It does seem a problem waiting to happen, and I know I'm not at my
brightest right now.  I think a better solution would be to disconnect
the old drives and offer them up as external drives to get everything
copied over.  I have to go out soon, but I'll think this over, and
hope to tackle it this evening.

Thanks for answering

Anne
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