| Matthew Rosewarne on 8 Oct 2008 10:08:40 -0700 |
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On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Art Alexion wrote: > There is a 254 MB /boot partition, but when I access the LV, there seems to > be one there as well. Unless that is just the /boot partition mounted on > /. The LV should have an empty /boot directory where the boot partition would be mounted. > As I mentioned, the hardware is identical except for the replacement of one > drive. Can I just boot an LV-aware LiveCD and copy everything > (except /boot, /proc, /tmp, etc.) to the new drive and just adjust the UUID > of the new drive for the old drive in /etc/fstab? I assume I can't > overwrite a running system by booting the new drive and copying everything > over to it. Did you want to keep the new drive and/or remove the old one? You shouldn't need to do either to get GRUB working. > It is telling me that it is installing grub to the old drive with the LV, > but when I boot it, I just get a black screen with "GRUB " on it (not a > prompt, just the word) and no input accepted. I can ctrl+alt+del, but > can't type anything. You'll want to use a chroot to install grub. Boot with a livecd, mount the LV somewhere, mount the boot partition to the "boot" directory on the LV, then "mount -o bind" /dev, /proc, and /sys to their respective dirs on the LV. chroot into the LV then run "grub-install [boot partition]" and "update-grub". Attachment:
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