On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:10 AM, David Goodenough <david.goodeno...@btconnect.com> wrote: > In the old Grub1 days if I had a bootable disk die and I copied its contents > across to a new disk and wanted to make it bootable I followed a procedure > that ran grub, looked for /boot/grub/stage1, set root to that hd, and then > setup that hd, and I was done. > > But now Grub2 seems to rely on UUIDs rather than device names and so > this does not work, or rather needs an extra step. > > So can someone point me to either an existing Howto which documents > the new procedure (I looked using Google but got nothing but the old procedure > above) or can someone outline the new procedure. This is of course a > request for a Debian procedure, I am running a nearly up to date sid.
I don't have access to the shell history, but I think the incantation that I used was something like: mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt # copy stuff into /mnt grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sdb umount /mnt The UUID stuff is mostly regenerated when you run grub-install. Any local overrides that you might have in place would need updating first, of course. Same goes for any UUID references in /etc/fstab and similar. mrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
