Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

[Itay Furman <itayf@fastmail.fm>]

 

On Sun, May 11, 2014, at 02:40 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

On 05/11/2014 05:46 AM, Itay wrote:

Old disk was 300GB and failing.  New is 1TB.

I replaced the old harddrive and made few steps to copy the system back to the new drive (see below).

Obviously I missed something as the system does not boot.  BIOS comes up alright.

 

 

I guess that I overlooked something with the boot files, but what and how to remedy this?

 

 

Did you reinstall grub (or whatever bootloader you use)? You need something like

# grub-install /dev/sda

to install the bootloader to the MBR. An rsync would not copy that.

 

No. I did not.

Do I need to tell grub-install that the root '/' resides on /dev/sda2, and that the /boot resides on /dev/sda1?

If yes: I am not sure how to use the --root-directory option.

 

Many thanks,

Itay

 

 

 

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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
eduardo@kalinowski.com.br

 

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Itay Furman

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