H.D. install problem -

[Bob Goodwin]

Joel Rees wrote:
>
> On Aug 25, 2008, at 5:31 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
>> Russell Miller wrote:
>>>>
>>> You now have your partition list, which you can mount.
>>>
>>> --Russell
>>>
>> Ok, I can't mount it on / because that's already used but I can mount 
>> it on /mnt and copy files at least.  Thats a start, more than I've 
>> been able to do so far!
>>
>> mount  /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 /mnt
>>
>> I'll need to figure how to get grub to boot it ...
>
> If you succeeded in mounting it, look in the old /boot (in other 
> words, in /mnt/boot) If you don't recognize what you should be looking 
> for after checking the manual entries, etc., ask again.
>
Curiously, I haven't been able to see /boot/ ?

> I've done this several times, including several times when I was 
> fighting the old problem where you didn't want LVM handling volumes on 
> more than one drive in a system. I don't know if that old limitation 
> still exists, you'll want to check. (I probably want to check, too, 
> but not today.)
One more thing to worry about ...
>
> The short answer to booting the old system is to remove the new drive. 
> The long answer includes adding to the new grub configuration, new 
> entries to either chain or directly boot the old system, but modifying 
> the drive numbering appropriately. If you chain, I think you'll end up 
> editing the old grub's configuration as well, because of the drive 
> numbering problem.
Yes, but plugging the old drive back in is a last resort sort of thing.  
I had hoped to make the new drive a third one but sadly I found only two 
SATA connectors on the motherboard so I had to revert to plan B.
>
> Wish I had time to write a tutorial on it, but such do exist on the 
> web. Some will be old and send you in the wrong direction, so look for 
> something recent.
>
> Joel Rees
>

The help is appreciated.  It's what keeps people with Fedora ...

I'm done for today.

Bob