[ale] Help! moving a Red Hat 8 drive to a pre-existing XP system

[Michael E. Barker]

John

Read this first: http://www.fedorazine.com/content/view/191/

I had a similar problem when I upgraded to winxp, but; for lack of patience
I'm just using the boot floppy for FC1.

It seems that grub and winxp don't want to play nice together for anyone
using redhat.

Let me know what happens as I will eventually want grub (or any loader)
working again.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of John
Wells
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 2:55 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] Help! moving a Red Hat 8 drive to a pre-existing XP
system


Having a weird problem trying to move a redhat 8 drive to an existing PC
to coexist with an XP drive.  I'm trying to reinstall Grub.  If I boot
into the cd and do a "linux rescue", then chroot to /mnt/sysimage, and
then run "grub-install /dev/hdb1" (hdb1 is my /boot on the linux drive) I
get "Error: hdb1 has no corresponding BIOS entry".

Ok, first effort down.  Then, tried to run the red hat 8 (and the fedora
core 1, after 8 failed) install cd to force the "upgrade" to install grub,
but for each cd, it craps out after selecting Upgrade and then "Customize
packages to be installed" with "error enabling swap device hda3: No such
device. This most likely means this swap partition has not been
initialized".  Note: hda is the XP drive, hdb is the linux drive I'm
introducing.  I tried dropping to the command line before reaching that
point and "swapon /dev/hdb3" (hdb3 is my swap on the linux drive), and
although this indeed enables the swap, both installs still crap out trying
to swapon hda3.

Anyone know what I might do to get this going?  If not, anyone know where
the Red Hat install stores swap drive info (so I might edit it before it
reaches this point).

Thanks, as always.
John

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