How to replace a hard drive...

[William Park]

Okey, it's time for you to bring your computer to TLUG meeting. :-)
This remote diagnostic is only good for "is-it-plugged-in" kind of question.
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William



----- Original Message ----
> From: Peter King <peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Sent: Thu, May 12, 2011 2:51:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: How to replace a hard drive...
> 
> Things just get curiouser and curiouser.
> 
> I can boot from Sysresccd with  the option "boot from an existing 32/64 bit 
>Linux
> system on disk" and, apart  from a hiccup because the kernel on Sysresccd is 
>older
> than my kernel, it all  loads without any problem. The existing installation, 
>by the
> way, is 64-bit  kernel/userland.
> 
> Having gotten up and running in this fashion, I decided  to re-install grub, 
>and again 
>
> to do so manually in the standard  way:
>    #grub --no-floppy
>    grub> root (hd0,0)      <-- location of /boot, a.k.a. /dev/sda1
>    grub> setup (hd0)       <-- install grub to MBR of /dev/sda
>    grub>  quit
> It all seemed to work just fine. The grub.conf was unaltered, putting  boot at 
>(hd0,0)
> -- which, confusingly, is written "root (hd0,0)" like above  -- and then 
>identifying the
> location of the rootfs at /dev/sda3. This is the  *exact* configuration on the 
>old hard
> disk, which works fine.
> 
> Yet  somehow, when things get going, it all stalls and gives up after detecting  
>the
> keyboard. Must be a problem handing off to the rootfs somehow. But how?  
>Sysresccd can
> find the rootfs with no trouble.
> 
> Right after detecting  the keyboard, as far as I can tell what happens in order 
>is:
> 
>    *  loading /sys
>    * loading debug-fs
>    * running udev
> 
> The  natural suspect is /sys. That's as far as I can get. But this can't be all  
>that
> odd a situation -- surely others have tried to mirror hard drives, and  the 
>procedure I
> used seems to be ordinary enough -- so why did it blow up? I  don't really 
>understand 
>
> grub, but then again my ignorance hasn't posed any  difficulties before. Now I 
>really 
>
> have run out of ideas. Suggestion, even  wild ones, would be welcome.
> 
> -- 
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> Department of  Philosophy
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> 
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