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Is it possible to move the boot and OS drive to another controller and still boot machine? I moved the boot drive sdb1 to a different controller and I can ...
  1. 03-26-2010 #1
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    Can I move boot drive to different controller?

    Is it possible to move the boot and OS drive to another controller and still boot machine?

    I moved the boot drive sdb1 to a different controller and I can figure out how to make the machine boot from it.

    I changed the bios and get a brief boot indication, I then editted menu.lst in the grub folder and pointed it to the new device but still the machine won't boot.

    Is there something I need to do, other than reinstall?

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    When you do anything that makes critical changes the partition layout, you need to edit the grub configuration file and the fstab file accordingly.
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    But I'm not changing the partition layout, I'm simply moving the drive from the motherboard sata port to a hot swap cage and controller. When I try to boot the machine it doesn't fully boot, after a few seconds of selecting the menu item to boot from the boot process stops.

    Any ideas what I need to edit to fix this?

    here is a listing of menu.lst / grub.conf

    title Fedora (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586)
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet vmalloc=256M
    initrd /initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586.img
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    The problem is likely due to a change in the drive's identifier, from /dev/sda to /dev/something-else. If you label the partitions on the drive, such as "/", "swap", "/boot", and use the labels in the /etc/fstab, it might work.
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    Quote Originally Posted by toddb
    I changed the bios and get a brief boot indication, I then editted menu.lst in the grub folder and pointed it to the new device but still the machine won't boot.

    Is there something I need to do, other than reinstall?
    Which version of RedHat/Fedora are you using?
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    I'm running F11 - i386 mode

    The drive I wish to relocate to a different controller is a ext3 boot and a LVM 2 / & swap partition
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  7. 03-30-2010 #7
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    Could you post contents of its /etc/fstab file? If Fedora 11 is using UUID instead of device names, there won't be any problem.
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