Hi, i've read the FAQ and googled for it, but did not find any answer.
The problem: I have a working linux installed on a 20 G hard disk. I boots up with "grub", everything works fine, except that disk space is too small. I just bought an 80 G hard disk and want to copy the system over to that disk "as it is". So i booted my system with /dev/hda as the 20 G disk and have the other disk (80 G) available as /dev/hdb. I partitioned, formatted /dev/hdb and copied the the normal files, no problem. Now i'd like to also make the disk bootable via grub. Some years ago when i used lilo (an other boot loader) there was the possibility to install it it on a hard disk /dev/hdb so that it would boot up fine when it would be attached as /dev/hda in a PC. If i remember the parameter necessary was bios=0x81 or something like that. Is it possible for grub to install on a disk /dev/hdb, then switch off the PC, remove disk /dev/hda and replace it with the former disk /dev/hdb that would then boot up as /dev/hda? I hope it is clear what i want to do, is something like this possible? Thanks for any hints, Torsten. _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
