Hi, I'm running Gentoo Linux and used rsync in order to create backups on another disk. The content of the backup disk is exactly the same as on my working disk. And I installed a boot loader on the bachup disk so that I can simply swap the disks if necessary.
Some time ago I noticed that the backup disk didn't boot anymore though I didn't change anything. I tried to install the bootloader again. grub-install didn't complain but the disk didn't boot and there was no error message. Nevertheless, the backup disk was quite useful though, I could at least restore files I removed accidentally. Now my main disk seems to be broken. The system still works but I get zillions of I/O-errors on /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda4. I bought a new disk now because I don't want to modify anything on my backup disk. Now the new disk contains an exact copy of the backup disk. When I try to boot the new disk, I end up in a grub shell. This is much better than the blinking cursor I've always seen in the past. The first step seems to work: grub> root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 This is correct. The first partition /dev/hda1 (hd0,0) is the swap partition and /dev/hda2 (hd0,1) contains the operating system as well as the /boot/grub directory. When I try to install the bootloader grub> setup (hd0) I get the error messages Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no Checking if "/boot/stage1" exists... no Rerror 15: File not found Why? /boot/grub/stage1 definitely exists on (hd0,1). What do I miss? Regards, Reinhard -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-3373112 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:[email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
