Grub fails when moving HD to a new computer

Bob Chiodini rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Tue Mar 15 15:50:29 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 16:28 +0100, rescondio wrote:
> After the link grub told me that it couldn't find 
> 
> /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat
> 
> I tried to symlink again :o) but I got something like "can not link. Read-only filesystem"
> 
> However, chroot seems a good way to reinstalling grub.
> 
> Command should be
> 
> chroot /mnt/sysimage /mnt/sysimage/sbin/grub-install
> 
> Am I right ?
> 
> If it doesn't work, I am thinking on installing a FC3 on another HD in the new computer, and later move filesystem from old hd to the new one :)
> 
> Thank you very much for your help !
> 
> 
> 
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Or just chroot /mnt/sysimage, then run /sbin/grub-install at the prompt.
If you do it as above /sbin/grub-install not the full path.  As / is
now /mnt/sysimage.

Bob...






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