RE: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

["David Christensen" <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

Rodney Richison wrote:
> I like norton ghost, then fix grub in the mbr because ghost will
> likely break it.
> After ghosting..
> Boot with mepis (Any live-cd would probably do)
> Open a terminal window
> Mounted the drive (don't use the mepis icon as it mounts read only)
> mount -rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
> chroot /mnt/hda1
> grub-install /dev/hda
> Note your partitions may differ IE /dev/hda2  etc...
> Works like a charm..   Note, grub wants the "drive" to install to. Not
> the partition.

I also use Ghost, but haven't figured out the MBR trick.  The Symantec web site
says Ghost supports LILO, and recommends a strategy similar to the above when
there's a boot problem.


Does anyone know the incantations for fixing LILO in the MBR using a rescue/live
disk?


TIA,

David