[ale] HELP! Mint machine is booting from the wrong hard drive

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Hi all,

One of my machines is running Mint 13 (based on Ubuntu 12.04).  The 
machine has two hard drives, a 320 GB hard drive on /dev/sda and a 500 
GB hard drive on /dev/sdb.  The 500 GB drive is for backup purposes 
only.  Tonight, I made an exact clone (as far as I know) of the 320 GB 
hdd over to the 500 GB hdd with clonezilla.  The 500 GB hdd is still 
attached.

My bios is set to boot from the 320 GB drive (/dev/sda).  Once I boot, 
the grub menu asks if I want to boot Mint on /dev/sda2, which is 
correct.  I select that, but, when the system comes up, I find that the 
500 GB hdd (/dev/sdB2) is the one that's mounted, and that's not what I 
want.

Can someone tell me why this is happening and how to prevent it without 
physically unplugging the drive?

Any help is always appreciated.

Sincerely,

Ron


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