[CentOS] CentOS 4 won't boot on test machine

[Scott Lamb]

On May 23, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:

> the device map shows hd1 is /dev/sde3.

Hmm, this is the most suspicious part of your message. First of all,  
hd1 can't be /dev/sde3 - it would have to be /dev/sde. Thus (hd1,0)  
is /dev/sde1. Second, the device map is used by the grub installer,  
but not by grub itself. It uses the actual BIOS boot order - hd0 is  
the first hard disk, hd1 is the *SECOND* hard disk. So if you boot  
grub with this configuration, it will try to load an operating system  
from a different hard drive!

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Scott Lamb <http://www.slamb.org/>