Then whatever windows is using to boot is pointing to grub, and that needs to be repointed to the new device. I don't believe grub-install does anything with that. On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 6:03 PM Michael Hennebry <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Apr 2021, Roger Heflin wrote: > > > Nothing in dracut cares about what partition it is on, and grub is not > > finding the initramfs. Grub is failing to find the boot.cfg files and > > vmlinuz and inittramfs. So either you have the wrong grub being > > started or the right grub but it cannot find its config files. > > > > Are you trying to move /root or /boot or is your /boot on /root > > without a separate /boot? > > When it was working, / , the root of the tree was on sda5. > That partition included everything except /var and /home , > which had their own separate partions. > > > Did you set /dev/sda3 as bootable in whatever program you used to > > partition? (if not efi). > > No. > Neither sda5 nor sda3 has ever been set as bootable. > I was under the impression that the grubs did not care. > I've never changed a bootable flag. > sda1 , a Windows 7 partition is the only partition marked bootable. > > > My general plan would be to set the new partition bootable with the > > partitioning program (fdisk there are options to find the option to > > set bootable) (this all assumes you aren't using EFI). > > > > liveboot it. > > That means boot a live disk, correct? > > > mount the new installs root (/) under /mnt > > aka sd3 aka local3slash > > > mount the new install boot device under /mnt/boot > > I do not have a separate boot partition, > so no need for this? > > > mount -o bind /dev/ /mnt/dev > > mount -o bind /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts > > mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc > > mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys > > this allows the chroot system to access devices and other critical > > resources to be able to run. > > Now what? > Run dracut? > > > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 4:56 PM Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> On 4/22/21 3:46 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > >>> What is dracut? > >> > >> Try using man dracut. Man is your friend; trust man. > > -- > Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, > a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." > -- someeecards > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
