On Monday 24 December 2007 15:06:36 Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > cp- a should work fine. I have used that several times and no problems > > yet. You can add the -v if you like to see the files scrolling by. > > > > If you have the same partitions on the new drive as the old drive, your > > grub.conf and fstab should be fine. > > > > You will need to install grub on the new drive tho. I usually do that > > from the Gentoo CD myself. > > > > Hope it all goes well. > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > Me and my sucky typing. Make that cp -a instead. That may work better. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
Right, so when I've finished copying the partitions to the new disk, I swap the disks and boot with the Gentoo live CD and follow the instructions from the install handbook: Default: Setting up GRUB using grub-install To install GRUB you will need to issue the grub-install command. However, grub-install won't work off-the-shelf since we are inside a chrooted environment. We need to create /etc/mtab which lists all mounted filesystems. Fortunately, there is an easy way to accomplish this - just copy over /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab, excluding the rootfs line if you haven't created a separate boot partition. The following command will work in both cases: Code Listing 5: Creating /etc/mtab # grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab Now we can install GRUB using grub-install: Code Listing 6: Running grub-install # grub-install --no-floppy /dev/hda If you have more questions regarding GRUB, please consult the GRUB FAQ or the GRUB Manual. Continue with Rebooting the System. Cheers! -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee CASEB & ECIM Departamento de Ecologia, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago. CP 6513677 CHILE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
