falinx
September 18th, 2008, 05:04 PM
Hey everybody,
I'm not really that new to linux but since I decided to start studying towards linux+ I've opened up a huuuuuuuge can of worms :).
So heres the issue, I can't get my 2nd hard drive to boot up. I have used the cp -ax option (after mounting and creating the partitions successfully) to backup all data to the new drive. I then grub-install on the drive to "grub" it. Now I need to be able boot it. Initially I was going to make it the primary drive and remove the original drive but that was overzealous of me... it's just never going to happen it would seem :) So I decided to settle for second place and just use the initial drive as the mbr with the boot loader etc but to no avail. If I try and amend menu.lst to point to the new drive it just boots up the old installation. Another thing that boggles my brain is how the frick /etc/fstab mounts drives in order to boot them. hd0 is not sda1 etc... I'm lost... very very very lost and I've been working on this issue for like 2 days.... Can anybody help pretty plz????
I'm not really that new to linux but since I decided to start studying towards linux+ I've opened up a huuuuuuuge can of worms :).
So heres the issue, I can't get my 2nd hard drive to boot up. I have used the cp -ax option (after mounting and creating the partitions successfully) to backup all data to the new drive. I then grub-install on the drive to "grub" it. Now I need to be able boot it. Initially I was going to make it the primary drive and remove the original drive but that was overzealous of me... it's just never going to happen it would seem :) So I decided to settle for second place and just use the initial drive as the mbr with the boot loader etc but to no avail. If I try and amend menu.lst to point to the new drive it just boots up the old installation. Another thing that boggles my brain is how the frick /etc/fstab mounts drives in order to boot them. hd0 is not sda1 etc... I'm lost... very very very lost and I've been working on this issue for like 2 days.... Can anybody help pretty plz????