I was wanting to upgrade (reinstall) but never had a good excuse. I
was going to spend more time fiddling around with the MBR and Grub
settings than I was going to kill doing a OS reinstall. All of my
data was on a separate /home disk, so I just slapped on the new OS,
configured a couple services
Scott Moseman wrote:
I copied over the MBR from hdc to sda. I found a 4.4 LiveCD, but
apparently its damaged so it wouldn't boot. I attempted to put
everything back and when I rebooted it went into a GRUB screen instead
of a normal boot. I had no idea how to get it to boot from there, so
inste
Scott Moseman wrote:
The BIOS determines which disk (the first) will be chosen to boot from.
I have no problems configuring the boot order in the BIOS.
I must have the MBR on /dev/hdc (which is being removed).
The /boot partition is on /dev/sda (where I want to move MBR).
To make a plain boo
I copied over the MBR from hdc to sda. I found a 4.4 LiveCD, but
apparently its damaged so it wouldn't boot. I attempted to put
everything back and when I rebooted it went into a GRUB screen instead
of a normal boot. I had no idea how to get it to boot from there, so
instead of taking the time t
I also do not see an CentOS 4.x x86_64 Live CD; only i386.
Is it not really going to matter, 64b vs 32b, when using that?
Thanks,
Scott
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> Do I need to move the MBR, remove the old drive, and reboot from
> a LiveCD in order to have a reconfigure of grub correctly see which
> drive it should fin
> The BIOS determines which disk (the first) will be chosen to boot from.
I have no problems configuring the boot order in the BIOS.
I must have the MBR on /dev/hdc (which is being removed).
The /boot partition is on /dev/sda (where I want to move MBR).
> To make a plain bootsector copy:
> dd if
Scott Moseman wrote:
I removed an ATA drive (/home) for a new SATA and my system would not
boot. I'm guessing that it put the MBR on that drive instead of the
drive that holds the / partition. What's the best way confirm where
the MBR resides and, after I verify that's my problem, how I can mov
I removed an ATA drive (/home) for a new SATA and my system would not
boot. I'm guessing that it put the MBR on that drive instead of the
drive that holds the / partition. What's the best way confirm where
the MBR resides and, after I verify that's my problem, how I can move
(or make a copy) onto
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