AH. I didn't realize you have 2 drives with default boot drive is still windows.<br><br>MBR on boot drive needs the grub data. Additionally, the drive designator hd0 will be wrong. It should be hd1 in the grub setup (menu.1st I believe for Ubuntu; grub.conf for RedHat/Fedora style).<br>
<br>Specifically the lines in grub.conf like:<br>#boot=/dev/sda<br>default=0<br>timeout=0<br>splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz<br>hiddenmenu<br>title Fedora (2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64)<br> root (hd0,0)<br> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_blindtoadstout-lv_root rd_LUKS_UUID=luks-79a78ec7-99bc-4277-a9a5-f9b9153157f2 rd_LVM_LV=vg_blindtoadstout/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_blindtoadstout/lv_swap rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet<br>
initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64.img<br><br><br>The root (hd0,0) will need to be changed to root (hd1,0) if the mbr on the first drive (windows boot) has been properly installed with the grub loader and the Linux distro is on sdb. Make the same change for the splashimage (If you have one).<br>
<br>This could be _ALL_WRONG_ if you are using grub2 system. But I _think_ drives are counted from 0 while partitions are counted from 1. That make root (hd0,0) become root (hd0,1) and root (hd1,0) become root (hd2,0).<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:savithari@gmail.com">savithari@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Friends:<br><br>Please clarify/educate me on this please.<br><br>My set up is<br><br>HD1 is a 1TB Hitachi drive on which I first installed Windoze(it is still there). In the Linux world it is /dev/sda<br>HD2 is a 1TB Hitachi drive on which I am trying to install Ubuntu Server/Debian in that order (install works for debian but wont work after that).<br>
<br>Since it is a 1TB drive, I have to install LVM(which the installer provides in guided partitioning) I am assuming.<br><br>In the GRUB world, where does the GRUB or the initial menu piece get installed to ? The /dev/sda or the /dev/sdb ?<br>
<br>Also how does LVM fit into this scenario ?<br><br>Please educate.<br><font color="#888888"><br>-Narahari<br>
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