Switching drives after installing Gentoo problem [SOLVED]

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oldbushie · Post by **oldbushie** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:39 pm

How do I tell a drive that it is now hda? (aka, the main drive.) I installed Gentoo on the drive while it was in the hdb slot but I want to explain to it that it should be hda; however it is still slightly incomplete (no grub on it yet). Once it is firmly reognizing itself as hda, I then want to install grub and get it to dual boot with the (now secondary) Vista drive, which shouldn't be a problem.

For some reason, when rebooting and running from the livecd, it is recognized as hdb, and this I have no clue how to fix.

jtaylor72 · Post by **jtaylor72** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:51 pm

You need to plug the drive you want to be hda in the mainboard as the primary master. The primary slave will be hdb, the secondary master hdc and the secondary slave hdd. Hope that helps.

oldbushie · Post by **oldbushie** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 7:52 pm

Yeah, I switched the jumpers, but my dad told me that the IDE cables didn't need to be switched unless using cable select. Guess he was wrong.