Re: rescue grub -- help!

2006-03-24 Thread David Liontooth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, I am a little bit curious why you have chosen to clone the drive with dd? I have always used a different route for cloning a system (see also "Duping a Drive Under Linux", http://linuxgazette.net/issue64/tag/12.html): Looks good, and better suited to my p

Re: rescue grub -- help!

2006-03-24 Thread cbergmann
Hi David, I am a little bit curious why you have chosen to clone the drive with dd? I have always used a different route for cloning a system (see also "Duping a Drive Under Linux", http://linuxgazette.net/issue64/tag/12.html): 1. Partition the new drive as necessary; 2. Mount the partitions i

Re: unable to open initial console (was: rescue grub -- help!)

2006-03-24 Thread Török Edvin
On 3/24/06, David Liontooth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Török, > > Thank you, that's very helpful. I ended up just installing a new Debian > on a different partition; once that was done, the installer agreed to > rewrite the MBR, and my old installation showed up in grub. I would much > prefer

unable to open initial console (was: rescue grub -- help!)

2006-03-24 Thread David Liontooth
Hi Török, Thank you, that's very helpful. I ended up just installing a new Debian on a different partition; once that was done, the installer agreed to rewrite the MBR, and my old installation showed up in grub. I would much prefer being allowed to rewrite the MBR without first having to insta

Re: rescue grub -- help!

2006-03-24 Thread Török Edvin
On 3/24/06, David Liontooth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cloned a drive, starting with the MBR: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=446 count=1 > > However, after installing the cloned drive in the new machine, all I get > is a scrolling GRUB filling the screen. I downloaded an amd64 netboot > C

rescue grub -- help!

2006-03-23 Thread David Liontooth
I cloned a drive, starting with the MBR: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=446 count=1 However, after installing the cloned drive in the new machine, all I get is a scrolling GRUB filling the screen. I downloaded an amd64 netboot CD, mounted / and /boot in /target, and issued chroot /target

rescue grub -- help!

2006-03-23 Thread David Liontooth
I cloned a drive, starting with the MBR: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc bs=446 count=1 However, after installing the cloned drive in the new machine, all I get is a screen-full of scrolling GRUB filling the screen. I downloaded a netboot CD, mounted / and /boot in /target, and issued chroot