topic Re: boot with two in Operating System - Linux

boot with two

nash11 — Thu, 11 May 2006 06:49:54 GMT

I have two HD , both of them have a RH linux installed, I try to plug these two HD into one server and boot it , it will be crashed , it seems both of them are active mode , could advise is it possible to select one of them to boot as primary server ? thx.

Re: boot with two

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 11 May 2006 08:22:07 GMT

Sometimes, grub can be confused if you install two disks with Linux installed. I'm not sure the reason but maybe is because the root=LABEL="/" will match the two disks.

You can try setting the root to a specific disk. Edit the grub menu and replace the root entry for the selected kernel with something like:

root=/dev/sda3 #For scsi
root=/dev/hda3 #For IDE

You must know the partition that holds your root file system.

Re: boot with two

V S Chakravarthi — Fri, 12 May 2006 09:22:54 GMT

Check in BIOS which disk is recognised as master and which one as slave, if there is a conflict then check jumper setting on hdd.

-chakri