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

[jondz <linux@jondz.net>]

On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 04:23 -0400, jondz wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 19:39 -0400, Mike Leone wrote:
> > So here's what I did:
> > 
> > installed new HD
> > booted knoppix in command line only (knoppix 2)
> > mkdir /mnt/oldhd
> > mkdir /mnt/oldhd/boot
> > mkdir /mnt/oldhd/usr
> > mkdir /mnt/oldhd/var
> > 
> > mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/oldhd
> > mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/oldhd/boot
> > mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/oldhd/usr
> > mount /dev/hda8 /mnt/oldhd/var
> > 
> > chroot /mnt/oldhd
> > /usr/sbin/grub-install hd0
> > 
> > It said:
> > 
> > Could not find device for /boot: not found or not a block device
> > 
> > Had no errors mounting it; if I changed to it, I saw all the proper
> > files in /boot.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > (there's reasons why I dislike computers ... :-))
> > 
> > 
> > (/boot is ext2; all others are ext3. Not that it should matter; mount
> > auto-figured out what the format was, else I wouldn't have seen anything)
> > ]
> 
> I found this 
> 
> http://www.wplug.org/pipermail/wplug/2006-July/028538.html
> http://www.wplug.org/pipermail/wplug/2006-July/028540.html
> 
> this has probably something to do with device.map.  
> 
> Here is something else that may or may not be relevant (the "grub
> setup()" command ).  I know i have used it once.  it looks like
> something that can force an grub install.  

oops..forgot the link.   

http://www.linuxsa.org.au/mailing-list/2003-07/1270.html


> 
> jondz


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