1. I installed the first new HDD in the physical position of hdb. I booted with a Knopppix live CD, made sure the drives were unmounted, and then I used dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb to mirror hda on the original old drive to one of the new HDDs. This worked as expected, and I could see my directories on the new HDD.
2. Next I physically moved the new HDD to the hda position, and I also physically installed my other new HDD into the hdb position for future use.
3. When I rebooted, immediately after the Dell welcome screen, I hear new sounds - a tone punctuated by a stacco-like interruption, making it sound sort of like "beeping". My son is a linux sysadmin, so I called him. He led me through running grub via Knoppix, and we ran through grub setup on hd0,0 etc. When I rebooted after this, I was again greeted with the beeping.
4. Since I thought we were hosed, I again tried to reboot with the Knoppix live CD. This time I also got the beeping - although it should've simply booted the Knoppix CD. However, after a period of beeping, it went ahead and booted into Knoppix! Given this [strange] behavior, I went back and tried to boot the HDD again, only this time I let it beep longer. After about 30sec, I got some grub messages about stage 5, then some messages about what kernel it was going to use etc. I used to get a list of several 2.4 and 2.6 kernels to choose from, but now that screen just flashes for a few msec and then disappears. Anyway, after telling me what kernel is being used, there is another delay for about 10-15 sec, and THEN IT GOES ON AND BOOTS COMPLETELY NORMALLY! Everything about the server and it's usual services are normal!
Does anyone see what's happening with this? Since it happens now even with the Knoppix CD (it didn't used to), I am completely lost. The bios is set to boot from CD, and normally it would just start booting into Knoppix, but now this strange delay and beeping. Until right now I assumed it was something about the new HDD but now I'm not so sure.
Any help greatly appreciated! - John
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