[NCLUG] New 80GB maxtor won't fdisk...

[Michael Crosiar]

Sorry, i was feaking out. What I did was copy hda to
hdb (my new maxtor)

  cp -ax / /boot /mnt/hdb3

where hdb3 is my mounted new harddrive. - 

anyway, your directions helped immensly - my old hard
drive boots, so now all I have to do is get the new
one to boot and I'm done...

Thank all, I think I'm close!


--- mbutcher <mbutcher at aleph-null.tv> wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 July 2002 07:30 pm, Michael Crosiar
> wrote:
> > Ok, I moved the drive from hdc to hdb, and it
> > fdisk/setup fine. I next went to install grub
> stage1
> > on the mbr of '(hd1)' using grub-install, but must
> > have messed something up, because now neither
> drive
> > will boot!! help!
> 
> That's a little terse... what drives won't boot? If
> you installed grub on
> hdb, why would hdc boot? I'm very confused.
> 
> Anyway... if you install grub from grub shell,
> here's how you would do it, 
> assuming you were going to boot from the first
> partition of hdb.
> # grub
> grub> root (hd1,0)
> grub> setup (hd1)
> grub> quit
> 
> make sure you have all the other grub stuff in hdb1
> (hd1,0) like menu.lst and 
> all of that.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > What do I do now?
> >
> > --- Sean Reifschneider <jafo-nclug at tummy.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 03:41:51PM -0600, C.
> Michael
> > >
> > > Crosiar wrote:
> > > >bootup Linux says it recognizes the drive on
> hdc,
> > >
> > > which is correct. But when
> > >
> > > >I go to fdisk the drive I get the message
> "Unable
> > >
> > > to open /dev/hdc". I
> > >
> > > I'd bet you used to have a CD burner in there on
> > > /dev/hdc.  Check your boot
> > > file (/etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/grub.conf)
> and
> > > look for "hdc=ide-scsi".
> > > You probably want to remove that, otherwise
> you'll
> > > need to look for the
> > > drive on /dev/sd*.
> > >
> > > Sean
> > > --
> > >  Total strangers need love, too; and I'm
> stranger
> > > than most.
> > > Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous
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