[ale] Grub and Ghost

[Brian MacLeod]

Reload Grub with grub-install?

The geometry of your new drive will be different than the one that you
imaged from, and Grub can be a little finicky at times when it comes to
geometry, and looking for partitions it thought were here, when they are
now there.

bnm



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On 
> Behalf Of Greg Freemyer
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 11:55 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] Grub and Ghost
> 
> All,
> 
> I have a dual boot computer that I decided to duplicate.  
> (Win 2K Pro / SUSE 9.2)
> 
> I booted a dos floppy and ran Ghost to copy the main drive to 
> a second I installed in the machine .  It claimed to complete 
> succesfully and I can mount both the copied NTFS and EXT3 
> partitions from Linux.
> 
> When I put this machine in another computer and try to boot 
> it, I just get the word "grub" and a blank screen.
> 
> I have checked /boot/grub/menu.lst and the boot message, and 
> everything else, is referencing (hd0,2), which was correct 
> for the original machine, and is also correct for the new machine.
> 
> On the new machine, I can boot the SUSE 9.2 Live CD and mount 
> the partitions, I just can't boot via grub.
> 
> Any suggestions on what I need to do?
> 
> Thanks
> Greg
> --
> Greg Freemyer
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