On Sun, 11 May 2014, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 08:40:49 -0300
From: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <edua...@kalinowski.com.br>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement
Resent-Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 11:57:44 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On 05/11/2014 05:46 AM, Itay wrote:
Old disk was 300GB and failing. New is 1TB.
I replaced the old harddrive and made few steps to copy the system
back to the new drive (see below).
Obviously I missed something as the system does not boot. BIOS comes
up alright.
I guess that I overlooked something with the boot files, but what and
how to remedy this?
Did you reinstall grub (or whatever bootloader you use)? You need
something like
# grub-install /dev/sda
to install the bootloader to the MBR. An rsync would not copy that.
Hi Eduardo
Following-up on your suggestion I tried to reinstall grub but failed.
Steps (as root using LIVE DVD):
# 1. Create mount point for would be root file system
$ mkdir /media/root
# 2.
$ mount -t auto /dev/sda2 /media/root
# 3. Mount would-be boot partition
$ mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /media/root/boot
# 4. Based on info found on the net
$ grub-install --root-directory=/media/root /dev/sda
# grub complained on not being able to read correctly grub/stage1
#+ file or something similar.
I found on the net that grub works only with inode size of 128.
Confirming that this was not the case with the file system on
/dev/sda1 I remade the file system
$ mke2fs -I 128 /dev/sda1
copied the /boot files from the backup, and repeated steps 1-4 above.
The same error message.
Reboot process does not proceed to loading grub -- as before.
Thanks,
Itay
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