On Tuesday 20 May 2008 01:47:03 pm Javier Vasquez wrote: > I did a copy of the contents of each partitions, except by /proc under > root, into the new created ones, but I used "cp -a" instead of "dd". > This might have prevented copying the boot sector, necessary for the > boot sector probably... > > Do you suggest using "dd" instead? Would it work even if the destine > partition is bigger (I read somewhere it works perfectly when source > and destine are the same size, but I never read it works perfectly > when destine is bigger)... You did it the right way the first time. dd only works with same-size block devices anyway. > What about the HD MBR? I've tried already using "dd if=/dev/hda > of=~/full_mbr.bin bs=512 count=1 && dd if=~/full_mbr.bin of=/dev/sda > bs=446 count=1", but it didn't seem to work... I wouldn't know if > using count=2 to include the boot sector would work since the boot > partition is the 2nd one (the swap is the 1st one)... Don't try to copy it, reinstall it. Less messy, less prone to failure. > Any ways, I'm still on trials, but I haven't gotten grub to work yet. > I tried also "grub-install" on sda, but that doesn't seem to work, it > only does with chroot to the mounted root of sda and with a bind to > the mounted boot of sda, however partially since it doesn't get to > read stage2. Running manually grub over the chroot seems to overcome > the stage2 thing, but I still don't get grub to work after booting. You're on the right track, I remember getting it to work from approximately that point, I just can't remember what I had to change to get it to work from there. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html
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