[Techtalk] First time upgrading hard drive

[Dennis Wheeler]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Devdas Bhagat [mailto:devdas at dvb.homelinux.org] 
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 10:06 PM
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] First time upgrading hard drive
> 
> 
> 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
> 

Thanks Devdas, that was the step I was missing.
(And Carla, I mis-spoke about the post info -- got my techno-speak
confused)

I'm still having trouble though... using Knoppix as my rescue cd:

I had created a separate boot partition /dev/hda1 maps to /boot
But from knoppix, it mounts as /mnt/hda1
So the original grub directory is /mnt/hda1/grub

I ran 
  grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/hda1 /dev/had

This creates a new grub directory /mnt/hda1/boot/grub

So when trying to boot, I end up with /boot/boot/grub

I get a kernel panic unable to find init (or intrid or something like
that)

Do I need to just move all the kernel files and such from /boot into
/boot/boot ?
Or how can I tell grub-install to create the new grub dir in the correct
location in the first place?

Or do I simply modify my grub.conf file to point to
	kernel ../vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/
	initrd ../initrd-2.4.20-8.img
instead of
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/
	initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img
(because the comments say its relative to the boot dir which seems to
have moved to /boot/boot now)

Thanks,
-- Dennis

Ps feel free to cc: me if you'd like, because I'm on the digest list,
and I actually didn't see Friday night's replys until late Saturday
night.