Disk replacement

[goldenchild@nettaxi.com]

I had a similar problem, but with LILO.  It just repeated li li li li li li li 
all over my screen until it would print anymore.  I had to reinstall LILO in 
the MBR to fix it.

On Tuesday 11 February 2003 06:06 pm, Scott wrote:
I have a dilemma...

I have a system (at work) that has a disk that is failing.  I obtained 
another disk to replace it with but have run in to issues...

The original disk is 4g and has the following mount points:

/
/usr
/var
/tmp
/opt
swap (not really a mount point - but it is space used)

The new disk is 20g.  I hooked it up, created the (larger) partitions, did 
a mkfs (mkswap for swap), created anchor points (/newroot, /newusr, etc) 
and mounted the partitions.  I then issued the following command:

dump -0f - / | (cd /newroot; restore -rf - )

The above command was appropriately modified for each mount point.  When 
this was done, I fired up grub and issued this command at the grub prompt:

find /boot/grub/stage1

Grub repsonded with (hd0,0) and (hd1,0) (<- this being the new disk)
I then did:

root (hd1,0)
setup (hd1)

According to all the docs I could find, grub should now be installed in 
the new disk.  Heres where the problem comes in:  When I attempt to boot 
from the new disk (appropriate cable and jumper changes), all I get is the 
work "grub" repeated forever on my screen.

Has anyone replaced a disk in this fashion and have it work?  If so, what 
did I forget and/or miss?  I am currently at a loss for ideas.

scott


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