On Sun 26 Apr 2015 at 05:31:41 -0700, Ldten K wrote: > Need some help making bootable HD with Grub. > > I have two HDs of the same size: > 1. /dev/sda - my old and working HD which has grub properly installed, > the system boots and works properly. /dev/sda has the following > partitions: > /dev/sda1 /boot > /dev/sda2 / > /dev/sda3 swap > > 2. /dev/sdb, my new HD, it has the same structure as /dev/sda: sdb1 > (/boot), sdb2 (/) and sdb3 (swap), though the size of the partitions > is slightly different. I want to transfer my data from sda to sdb > (that part was done) and make sdb bootable. sdb will then be the only > drive in the system. > > I ran "grub-install /dev/sdb" and it said that it completed without > errors. The PC however fails to boot from the new drive, which was the > only HD in the system at that time. After some delay the boot process > drops me not even into the Grub CLI but into some "grub rescue>" CLI > where even "help" command does not work. "ls" does work though.
You get the bare minimum with grub rescue>; not even TAB completion, > Any ideas as to what needs to be done to make sdb bootable just like > sda is? You need to to get the system booting so that you run 'update-grub' and maybe, for good measure, 'install-grub' prior to that command. Let's see the output of 'ls', please. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
