Last week I had to copy one of my LFS machines to a new hard drive and used the LFS LiveCD 6.2-2 as a rescue CD to back up and restore the contents of the old (failing) hard drive to the new one. I've done this a bunch of times before and used identical partitioning on the new drive.
What didn't work was after I swapped out the old hard drive and had the new drive as /dev/hda, the LiveCD 6.2.2 grub appeared to make the new drive bootable, but when I booted the new drive I got garbage on the screen instead of the grub menu. After trying it again and getting the same result, I popped in an older version of the LiveCD - version 6.1.1-2 (which I burned on Dec 11 2005), performed EXACTLY the same keystrokes in grub, and then the machine booted from the new hard drive just fine. Note that I'm not talking about booting the CD, entering chroot on the hard drive, then running grub from there. What I did was to boot the CD, then run grub off the CD and enter "root (hd0,2)" and then "setup (hd0)". All the messages indicated success, but the result didn't work. This is on a Pentium 4 Celeron class machine. Has anyone else made a hard drive bootable using the LiveCD 6.2-2 and gotten it to work? Thanks Steve -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
