Re: [SOLVED] Re: Wheezy: making a bootable HD with Grub
% I decided to follow the path you suggested as it seemed the simplest and easiest
% for me to do. Here's what I did in case if anyone is trying to resolve a similar
% issue:
%
% 0. Copy /boot and / partition data from the old drive to the new one
% 1. Run "blkid" to get patition UUIDs of old and new drives
% 2. Edit /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.cfg and replace old partiion UUIDs with
% the respective new ones. What it did for me was that the system would now drop
% into the grub CLI -- which is a lot nicer -- instead of grub rescue CLI.
% 3. Run the following in the grub CLI
% grub> set prefix=(hd0,msdos1)/grub
% grub> insmod normal
% grub> insmod linux
% grub> linux (hd0,msdos1)/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 root=/dev/sda2
% grub> initrd (hd0,msdos1)/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64
% grub> boot
% 4. The system now boots and is working
% 5. # grub-install /dev/sda
% 6. # update-grub
% 7. Reboot the system, the system reboots and comes back just fine.
%
% There is one small issue that I'm not sure what to attribute to. The grub
% selection menu that's shown when the system boots now has different colors and
% kind of shifted to the left of the screen so a small part of it is cut of.
% Different resolution perhaps? It would be nice to fix it.
The issue has been resolved. The selection menu color/shift quirk went away once the HD was properly installed into the PC. Guess it was some kind of interference/poor connection thing.
Thanks to everyone who responded.
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