On Saturday 23 June 2007, Michael Torrie wrote: > On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 15:44 -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 13:09 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > > > The last part is kind of tricky. I usually boot on knoppix and chroot > > > into my new hard drive install (be sure to mount proc and sys). An > > > alternative is to create a boot floppy or CD, and then use that to > > > boot your new hard drive as the root partition. Then once it's up, > > > run grub-install. > > > > Couldn't you just go "grub-install /dev/hdX" where X was the new drive?
Just chroot to the new drive and use grub's 'device' command to map it, and install grub from there. No need for a boot disk. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
