Scott Castaline wrote: > Running LFS-6.3/BLFS-6.3 on virtualbox and decided to move the original > system to a larger virtual disk. > > Original disk 8GB 3 partitions 1 = /boot, 2 = swap, 3 = / > New disk 20GB 3 partitions; same as above just different sizes. > > Created the fs on the new drive and mounted the 2 parts. Mounted the old > drives 2 parts. Copied everything from orig to new except /grub > I then unmounted the orig drive and did the chroot from the end of ch6 > 6.60 Cleaning Up on pg 187. Copied stage 1 & 2 from /usr/whatever. ran > grub as th eLFS book says to do in ch 8.4 pg 213 I'll get the error of > "Selected disk does not exist" > find /boot/grub/stage1 gives me "File not found" > > Do I need to go back to the environment created in Ch5 of the LFS book > and redo grub at that point and then go through creating the > environments used later in ch6 and then ch8? > > Scott I was able to reinstall grub by using a Fedora CD. I mounted both partitions from the new virtual disk and ran grub-install /dev/sda. Grub went through the install process and then I rebooted with both virtual disks registered with the VM and it immediately went to GRUB > where I was able to do the "find /grub/menu.lst". It reported both (hd0,0) & (hd1,0). I then shutdown the VM, unregistered the old vdi and it booted fine from the new vdi with 16GB of the 20GB avail.
I do have a question though, shouldn't I have been able to do this from the LFS LiveCD? It kept coming back with errors of which I can't remember right off hand I think no block devices found was being reported when I tried the above procedure with the LiveCD. Also I apologize if I should have sent this to the LFS list instead, it's just that I already had installed additional packages and was beyond the original base system. Scott -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
