[Techtalk] First time upgrading hard drive (or learning to use grub)

[Dennis Wheeler]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Wheeler 
> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 2:27 PM
> 
> 
> 
> > -----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
> 

Okay, I found a nice howto on using grub

I'm fairly confident now all my files are in the correct location

And I believe I'm using grub commands correctly to boot the new drive,
but now its hanging when it reaches the apm: (advanced power management,
I believe) output to the console.

I'm grasping at straws now, but I'm starting to wonder if perhaps I
stupidly bought a hard drive larger than my bios can handle -- 160 gig
ATA/IDE

But it seems I don't have any problems access the new drive when booting
from a CD or even from the old drive (I guess maybe that means I should
keep both drives, adding this one as a second -- but I had plans for the
old drive already)

Any ideas why it's hanging? Or what I should look for next?

Grub commands I'm using:
  grub> setup (hd0)(hd0,0)
  grub> root (hd0,0)
  grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=/dev/hda3
  grub> initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img
  grub> boot
  

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> 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.
>