upgrading drive problems

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Friday 23 April 2004 04:17 pm, you wrote:
> I am using Grub as the loader and the latest kernel of RH9  ....".30" I
> believe.
>
> I will try the rescue method, however, now that you know the loader and
> os version is thery anything else critical I need to know before trying
> the rescue method????
> Thanks

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OK, assuming the following 

new drive connected as primary master,
/boot partition is: /dev/hda1
/ partition is: /dev/hda2

all you need to do is go to the recue mode, then try the following:

1. Mount the root partition of the drive 
$> mkdir /mnt/realroot
$> mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/realroot

2. Change root to that mounted partition
$> chroot /mnt/realroot
$> cd /

3. run grub-install, and install it to the MBR of /dev/hda
(ref: 
https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/s1-grub-installing.html)
$> /sbin/grup-install

4. reboot and see what happens

RDB


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Reuben D. Budiardja
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