[Techtalk] First time upgrading hard drive

Devdas Bhagat devdas at dvb.homelinux.org
Sat Sep 25 10:35:43 EST 2004


On 24/09/04 18:36 -0700, Dennis Wheeler wrote:
> Hello, I tried to follow the howtos on upgrading a hard drive, but I
> must have missed a step somewhere, because the new drive won't boot.
<snip>
> 
> Uh oh, I see it -- ignore everything above -- I missed the lilo step --
> and on top of that, I have grub
> 
> Now I'm lost -- what do I do next?

Boot off a rescue dsk, chroot and run grub-install.
The rescue disk could be any bootable CD, or your old hard disk.

Devdas Bhagat


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