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Re: Relocating Squeeze partition



On Du, 13 feb 11, 10:15:04, Russell Gadd wrote:
> With Lenny I am able to take an image of a partition with an external
> imaging tool and rewrite it to a different location on the (first)
> hard drive. In this configuration I have a proprietary bootloader
> (BootitNG) in the MBR with Grub in the Lenny partition. My main
> objective is to clone a new install to run each for distinct purposes
> which I want to keep entirely separate.
 
Nothing special here

> After installing Squeeze this does not work. On trying to boot in the
> new location I just get a black screen with the word GRUB in the top
> corner. I think the main differences with Lenny are that I have Grub2
> instead of Grub, ext4 instead of ext3 and UUIDs instead of /dev/sdxn
> in fstab. Both systems are AMD64.

This seems like a problem with grub. I would try to reinstall grub on 
that partition.

Regards,
Andrei
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