Re: [PLUG] How best to replace old drive with new drive - problems installing grub

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:39:01 -0400
> From: Mike Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] How best to replace old drive with new drive -
> 	problems	installing grub
>
> JP Vossen wrote:
> > I don't remember getting this error.  Oops, but I do now vaguely recall
> > occasionally having some kind of issue, and installing grub
> > interactively via:
> >     $ grub
> >         root (hd0,0)
> >         find /grub/stage1
> >         setup (hd0)
> >
> > If the above works it will probably produce some "can't find here but
> > did find there" and successful install messages.
>
> Nope. Well, it said it found everything it wanted (I used the exact
> commands above). I got successful messages. But no boot ... not even the
> "Loading GRUB message ....)

Hummm, that's weird.  Once I've gotten the grub install successful 
message I don't recall any more problems.  I'm not 100% sure the 
"(hd0,0)" stuff is right.  I eyeballed your settings, but I've always 
had to poke at it a bit.  BIOS settings can sometimes play a role, 
though with your simple case I'd think that wouldn't be a problem.  I 
would start suspecting BIOS, H/W or other goofiness, but since you got 
it working a different way I'm not sure what to say.  I must have missed 
*something*...


> Never had this much problems cloning a Windows system to a larger drive. :-(

Sorry you are having problems.  I've done this a couple of times and I 
don't remember having these issues.  I've also had sort-of the opposite 
experience recently, though I was trying to move a Windows hard drive to 
a different system, which task failed miserably, and at length.


> Perhaps I'll just install a new version of Linux on it (it's Debian
> testing; don't ask me when it was originally made; I don't remember
> silly code names. I think it was kernel 2.4.19 ?), and transfer over the
> /home files, and the mail and samba config files ...

I just did that in late summer with Red Hat 8 to Debian Etch. It would 
work, and we could go on some more with it, but I since you've already 
solved the problem.....

Sorry I couldn't help more,
JP
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