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By: Winckler

Winckler — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 03:30:50 +0000

Additional tip:

You could use your regular system to copy. Just mount your (root) with the bind option:

#mount -t bind / /mnt/oldroot

and then, copy. If you are so worry with the RW:

#mount -o remount,ro /

By: jorge.vargas

jorge.vargas — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:47:42 +0000

next time use rsync it’s safer

By: tabrez

tabrez — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:28:28 +0000

tabrez on September 25, 2006 at 8:58 pm said:

Jason on September 25, 2006 at 7:47 pm said:

This works well if the Grub bootloader remains on the same drive and thus the machine remains booting from the same drive. I’ve been looking for help when the boot drive changes (or is removed in my case due to a failing drive.) Anyone know how to handle moving (or reinstalling) the Grub bootloader on a new drive? That way I could (a) move the boot partition per the post above to a good drive, (b) reinstall the boot loader with the right config, and then (c) remove the old drive. Thanks, Jason

It shouldn’t be difficult to reinstall the GRUB boot-loader on a different hard drive(LILO makes it slightly more complicated). Just follow the above procedure to move the entire GNU/Linux system to the new hard drive first, and then while making changes to the /boot/grub/menu.lst file(on the new hard drive), enter the details of the new disk and partition number([hd0, 0] for first partition of first disk, [hd3, 7] for 8th partition of 4th disk etc). Then you just need to run the following command(by getting into the system using a Live CD or some other way):

sh# grun-install /dev/hda

hda might be hdb, hdc, sda etc depending on the configuration of your computer.