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Colin@oxford
February 6th, 2016, 11:44 AM
I have a hard drive that is failing. I have moved everything onto a new disk, installed GRUB on the new drive (currently called /dev/sdb1) and can chainload from the old grub loader to the new one successfully. However, if I remove the old disk then the system fails to boot and I just get a blank screen with "GRUB " at the top. If it is any relevance, I am using "legacy" grub - i.e. 0.97 for various reasons.

What have I done wrong?

ajgreeny
February 6th, 2016, 01:46 PM
I have no idea if you've done anything wrong but I think Boot-Repair in my signature below may help you; as far as I'm aware it will still work on legacy grub, though it is a very long time since I've done anything using that version.

Colin@oxford
February 6th, 2016, 04:28 PM
Solved! it appears that there was an old GRUB installed in the MBR. I had installed in the partition so that worked on chainload but not on direct boot from the BIOS. Re-installed GRUB to the MBR and all was OK.

How do I mark this thread "solved" ?