Scott Moseman wrote:
I copied over the MBR from hdc to sda. I found a 4.4 LiveCD, but
apparently its damaged so it wouldn't boot. I attempted to put
everything back and when I rebooted it went into a GRUB screen instead
of a normal boot. I had no idea how to get it to boot from there, so
instead of taking the time to figure it out, I decided it was time to
make the plunge to CentOS 5. So I'm now on CentOS 5 and my old /home
hard drive is completely history. :)
And you happy with this?
I also do not see an CentOS 4.x x86_64 Live CD; only i386.
Is it not really going to matter, 64b vs 32b, when using that?
Doesn't matter for grub. Grub can load any operating system. You can
even install grub while running Windows XP (tried it once).
Do I need to move the MBR, remove the old drive, and reboot from
a LiveCD in order to have a reconfigure of grub correctly see which
drive it should find to boot from? Or can I do this before taking the
system down for the drive removal?
In principle this does not matter. Only the entries in grub.conf which
make up the menu need to be changed. The menu entries will contain
entries like "root (hd1,0)" which you need to change to "root (hd0,0)"
if you have only one disk in your system instead of two.
Once grub starts correctly, you can edit the menu entries as well. Just
press the 'e' key and scroll to the line that is incorrect and change it
until the system boots correctly. Permanent settings can be saved after
your boot in /boot/grub/grub.conf.
Anyway you are now happy with Centos5?
Cheers,
Theo
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