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A few months ago my hard drive started dying. I replaced it with a SATA
drive and after compiling a 2.4.21 kernel, I could see the drive and
copied everything over. I set up grub to allow me to boot that drive,
though the inital boot is done by the first IDE drive, which has win98 on
it.

I'm using SuSE 8.1, and using Yast I cannot get the grub stage 1.5 off the
dying second hard drive. This was okay for a while -- it could manage to
read of the tiny bit of data that was needed to find the SATA drive. But
now it really is at its end. I sometimes have to reset a few times before
I can boot Linux.

Here's menu.lst:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sun Jul 20 00:21:33 2003

gfxmenu (hd2,0)/message
color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 30

title linux-2.4.21
kernel (hd2,0)/vmlinuz-new root=/dev/hde6 vga=791 hdg=noprobe
initrd (hd2,0)/initrd-new

title linux-2.4.19.SuSE
kernel (hd1,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb3 vga=791
initrd (hd1,0)/initrd

title win98
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive

title floppy
root (fd0)
chainloader +1


Here's grub.conf:

root (hd3,0)
install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2
0x8000 (hd2,0)/grub/menu.lst
quit

I think that the above is what I need to change, but I have no idea how to
indicate to grub to go find the SATA drive. I am a bit nervous to fiddle
with it, because I have no CDs or floppies available that will boot a SATA
drive. If I mess it up I'm in trouble.


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