Shifting the boot partition

mihochan · Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2002 5:57 am Post subject: Shifting the boot partition

Hi,

I bought a new Hard Disk the other day to replace my 1G and 5G drives.
What I'd like to do is move everything over to the new disk and throw away the 1G disk.
But, I'm having trouble getting the machine to boot from the new disk.
My method has been to boot up in the old way with the new disk attached as a slave, run grub and then switch the disks over and see what happens.
This has never worked, and I'm wondering if my method is doomed.
Does anyone have any suggestions about the best way to do this?

TOm
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Jetlag · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 20 Location: UK

Make a boot floppy (or two) and install Grub on it. Swap your drives around and then boot from the floppy and choose which partition or hard drive to boot from at start up via Grub (no menu, just the Grub command line).

To make a Grub boot floppy (as root) ...

amittp · Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2002 6:00 pm Post subject:

May be this will help you.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=17579
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mihochan · Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2002 8:29 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the tips.
I'll give it a go.

Tom
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