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

John Wells jb at sourceillustrated.com
Sat Sep 11 14:56:48 EDT 2004


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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