Ok. I see that I can do this. I can make the boot disk using
mkbootdisk. But once I boot from the floppy, how do I install the boot
loader, grub onto the hard drive so that it boots from the new hda?
Thanks
Steve
At 12:08 PM 8/12/2004, you wrote:
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:33:43 -0500
Steve Buehler <steve@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks. That really bites. I didn't want to have to reinstall the
> operating system. Since the problem is on hda2 and the /boot is on
> hda1, it looks like I will have to
No you don't. Install hdd (remove a CD drive or whatever is there),
fdisk it, creating 2 partitions, copy /boot to hda1 and /Monday to hda2,
shut down, take out hda, place hdd in it's place and boot. Just make a
bootdisk first and reinstall the bootloader once finished. You'll also
have to play with the master/slave jumpers on the new drive to make it a
slave to copy and a master to replace.
There are also ways to do it a little quicker and easier using a rescue
disk or a livecd, such as knoppix. That way you could even chroot to
sda2 and reinstall the bootloader without having to use a bootdisk.
>. Kind of weird that I have an hdb2, but no
> hdb1...unless the hdb1 is the swap drive.
That's the most likely reason. You can find out with 'fdisk -l /dev/hdb'
and you'll see one marked 'linux swap' if that's the case.
> Thanks
> Steve
>
> At 11:19 AM 8/12/2004, Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
>
> >It would be a partition on hda, looks like you have 2 scsi drives and
> >3 ide right?
> >So ide drive one/primary needs to be fixed.
> >
> >Jason
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Steve Buehler [mailto:steve@xxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 12:14 PM
> > > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: hard drive detection
> > >
> > >
> > > Ok. Here is a real simple if not stupid question. I have
> > > some hard drives
> > > in a machine and here is the layout:
> > > /dev/sda2 35G 304M 32G 1% /
> > > /dev/sdb1 113G 96G 12G 90% /Friday
> > > /dev/hda2 112G 2.4G 104G 3% /Monday
> > > /dev/sda1 113G 70G 38G 66% /Thursday
> > > /dev/hdb2 111G 96G 9.4G 92% /Tuesday
> > > /dev/hdc1 113G 96G 12G 90% /Wednesday
> > > /dev/hda1 1004M 22M 931M 3% /boot
> > >
> > > No I know I don't have 7 hard drives in the machine.
> > > /dev/hda2 is having
> > > some problems and needs to be replaced. Is it a different
> > > partition on
> > > /dev/hda1, /dev/hdb2 or neither?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Steve
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