On Sun, 11 May 2014, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 08:40:49 -0300 From: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement Resent-Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 11:57:44 +0000 (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org 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.
Hi Eduardo Following-up on your suggestion I tried to reinstall grub but failed. Steps (as root using LIVE DVD): # 1. Create mount point for would be root file system $ mkdir /media/root # 2. $ mount -t auto /dev/sda2 /media/root # 3. Mount would-be boot partition $ mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /media/root/boot # 4. Based on info found on the net $ grub-install --root-directory=/media/root /dev/sda# grub complained on not being able to read correctly grub/stage1 #+ file or something similar.
I found on the net that grub works only with inode size of 128. Confirming that this was not the case with the file system on /dev/sda1 I remade the file system
$ mke2fs -I 128 /dev/sda1 copied the /boot files from the backup, and repeated steps 1-4 above. The same error message. Reboot process does not proceed to loading grub -- as before. Thanks, Itay