Hey folks. Decided to move my gentoo install from a very old and slow SCSI drive to a spare IDE I had kicking around. I partitioned the disk and then used rsync to sync /boot and / (using -ax to archive and not cross device boundries for things like /proc or /dev). All went well until I tried to get a bootloader installed on the new drive.
Running grub or grub-install gave me messages about "file missing" on files (stage1/stage2) that were indeed there. I figured that maybe running from inside a chroot shell wasn't the best idea so I rebooted onto a knoppix CD and ran grub-install and then grub there. Same sort of problems. Then I tried lilo, which had no problems installing but when I ran it it just gave me wither "L" or endless "LILO LILO LILO [etc]". Tried running through liloconfig and telling it to start fresh and install lilo in my MBR but that gave me the same results. I don't have any of the specific errors available now (put the machine back the way it was to keep my email server going :) but will probably try again tomorrow night. Anyone have any ideas on what is going on? I am pretty sure that wiping out the MBR properly (any tools to do this other than a windows boot disk and running fdisk /mbr?) or a low level format of the drive (in case it's reporting back information back to the BIOS or OS) would do the trick, but would welcome a simpler way :) alan -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
