Drive Image Linux kernel panics OS not found -GRUB

[Teddy Mills]

grub-install   /dev/hda   (or whatever IDE device it maybe)

Doh!!



> My only question is:, now that I can get back into the linux on the newly
> imaged drive, how can I now tell GRUB to reinstall the bootlloader? I was
> thinking of connecting the 2 drives together and using "dd", but I would
> prefer to use GRUB to reinstall the bootloader manually.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Teddy Mills" <teddymills-VFlxZYho3OA at public.gmane.org>
To: <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 3:58 PM
Subject: [TLUG]: Drive Image Linux kernel panics OS not found -GRUB


> I use Drive Image software (DriveImage Pro 2002 in my case)  to copy my
> Linux servers.
>
> DriveImage copying SCSI drives copy well, including copying the  boot
> records.
> However IDE drives do not copy the boot records properly. (I had this
> problem 2 years ago too. I forget what I did then to fix it)
> This means I get "operating system not found" when booting off the newly
> imaged Linux hard drive.
> I use SysLinux 2.00, and if a current mkbootdisk of the original drive is
> used, I get a kernel panic init= error.
>
> Booting off the SysLinux disk and passing a kernel option....
>
> boot: linux root=/dev/hda2
>
> (my kernel root is /dev/hda2)
>
> works. and boot the imaged drives!  Woohoo. I am not sure if this is what
I
> did 2 years ago.
> My only question is:, now that I can get back into the linux on the newly
> imaged drive, how can I now tell GRUB to reinstall the bootlloader? I was
> thinking of connecting the 2 drives together and using "dd", but I would
> prefer to use GRUB to reinstall the bootloader manually.
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