Re: Wheezy: making a bootable HD with Grub

[Ldten K <ldtenk@yahoo.com>]

On Sun, 4/26/15, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>  wrote:

> (hd0,swap) is more likely to be (hd0,msdos3)

Yes, you're probably right. I was writing from memory.

> One of the partitions holds the kernel and initrd image. Another has the
> files vmlinuz and initrd.img. 'ls ((hd0,msdos1)/' etc should help with
> locating them. Where are they?

(hd0,msdos1) is my new boot partition and I copied all the files from my old boot partition to the new one. So, I expect the output would show all the files and directories that I copied:

  grub rescue> ls (hd0,msdos1)/
  config-3.2.0-4-amd64  grub  initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64  lost+found  System.map-3.2.0-4-amd64  vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64

What's not clear to me is how it helps me. Perhaps I could try to boot the system from grub rescue (see below)?

grub> linux  (hd0,msdos1)/vmlinuz root=(hd0,msdos2)
grub> initrd  (hd0,msdos1)/initrd.img
grub> boot

Perhaps the system will boot this way. Then what? There's still the question of making the new HD bootable the normal way that remains.

Thanks