this isn't a problem with grub, it's the /etc/fstab configuration most likely, you can change the LABEL=/ and LABEL=/boot in the fstab to /dev/hda1 or whatever and that should work, or you can boot in rescue mode (of the installation CD) and relabel the extra disk On Fri, 20 May 2005, Michael wrote: > Greetings: > > I'm upgrading a fileserver running 3.4 (upgrade to a larger disk). I backed > up the data from the "old" disk and slapped in a newer, larger disk and > installed Centos-3.4. No problems. > > Now, there are some files on the "old" disk that I forgot to move to the > back-up disk, so I'd like to mount the "old" disk as /dev/hdd and reboot the > system and transfer the files [hdd (old disk) --> hda (new disk)]. > > However, the old disk still has Grub on the MBR and when I boot, the system > tries to mount the "/boot" and "/" partitions from BOTH disks! I get errors > about duplicate partitions and that those dups won't get mounted.The > fileserver does boot but with a configuration combination of both systems. > > Question: Grub is correctly installed and configured on hda. How do I get > the boot process to ignore the old disk (and MBR) on hdd??? > > I tried google but I can't seem to find this fix. > > Thanks, > > Michael Chinn > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >