grub reinstall, moved ubuntu installation

[metalfan_]

Hi,

since i had problems with grub in the past i would like to ask this time if what im planning todo should work.

Ive installed ubuntu to my internal sata drive, after that i installed another ubuntu version to my external usb drive. the second ubuntu installation is currently running.

if i detach the usb drive and boot i get some grub error, which indicates that grub is installed on sda but uses /boot/grub from my external harddrive...yes?

The target is to copy the ubuntu from my external drive to the internal.

the internal ubuntu resides on /dev/sda6, i did rsync my current installation to /dev/sda7.

now to get grub reading its files from /dev/sda7 i would do the following:




mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/newsys
chroot /mnt/newsys
grub-install /dev/sda





#the first entry from /boot/grub on /dev/sda7 looks like this:
#i updated root / UUID
title Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.24.030320
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.030320 root=UUID=551eca4c-0a08-4116-aaa7-16a8c3104932 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24.030320
quiet


#drive layout:


sudo fdisk -l

#first ubuntu installation

Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 10199 81923436 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 10200 19457 74364885 5 Erweiterte
/dev/sda5 10200 10260 489951 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 10261 18042 62508883+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 18043 19391 10835811 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 19392 19457 530113+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris

#second one, residing on external usb drive

Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 30027 241191846 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 30028 30401 3004155 5 Erweiterte
/dev/sdb5 30028 30401 3004123+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris



Would that work?

[metalfan_]

It did work with some modifications:

/boot/grub/menu.lst needs to be updated on the target drive. UUID/root needs updating.