I cloned a drive, starting with the MBR: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=446 count=1
However, after installing the cloned drive in the new machine, all I get is a scrolling GRUB filling the screen. I downloaded an amd64 netboot CD, mounted / and /boot in /target, and issued chroot /target Everything in there works fine -- the applications run. (I'm sitting at another computer at this point with remote access to the installer). But what I was counting on working, namely grub-install /dev/hda which used to work on i386, maybe a year or two ago, now gives me "/dev/hda: Not found or not a block device." If I do df, chroot sees only this: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on sysfs 7740384 3197252 4149944 44% /sys df: `/dev/pts': No such file or directory tmpfs 7740384 3197252 4149944 44% /dev In the installer shell, I get ~ # df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on tmpfs 102400 30248 72152 30% / /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 86390 86390 0 100% /cdrom /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 7740384 3197252 4149944 44% /target /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 97826 9736 82871 11% /target/boot So it's using devfs, which I thought was deprecated? What do I tell grub-installer? When I chrooted to /target, it rewrote /etc/fstab (why?), like this: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 In dmesg, I get NFORCE3-250: 0000:00:08.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA klogd[245]: segfault at 000000000000003e rip 0000002a9568b94e rsp 0000007fbfffe2a0 error 6 hda: WDC WD800BB-75CAA0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hdc: HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-7000, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Obviously /dev/hda is seen, since the chroot is running on it. What can I do? All I want is to rewrite the MBR, the installation itself is fine. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
