Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

Javier Vasquez wrote:

> You mean grub-install it?  I couldn't...  For some reason grub doesn't
> even find the stage1 file after running something similar to
> "grub-install --root-directory /mnt/sda-boot /dev/sda".  So I tried
> chroot to /mnt/sda-root (I also made the bind between /mnt/sda-boot
> and /mnt-sda-root/boot) and run "grub-install --root-directory /boot
> /dev/sda" and it worked better but now the stage2 file is not found by
> grub...  So yet under chroot, I did a search for /boot/grub/stage2,
> and it was found under (hd0,4) or (hd0,5), so then I did "root
> (hd0,4)", and then setup (hd0), and it said it finished successfully,
> but that was all a lie, since I rebooted and I had the same thing as
> when copying the MBR, a whole lot of "grub" words filling up the
> screen.  So I have tried everything that had occurred to me and that
> have read on the web, and at least just by "grub-install", or plane
> grub, I don't seem to find a solution.

Ensure that you have copies all the files from your existing /boot 
partition to the new /boot partition. Then unmount your existing /boot 
and mount the new partition at /boot. Then run grub-install /dev/sda. 
You may want to fix the menu.lst file so that the groot points to your 
new disk.

I always prefer this option instead of dd.


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