Matthew R. Lee wrote: > On Monday 24 December 2007 15:06:36 Dale wrote: > >> Dale wrote: >> >>> cp- a should work fine. I have used that several times and no problems >>> yet. You can add the -v if you like to see the files scrolling by. >>> >>> If you have the same partitions on the new drive as the old drive, your >>> grub.conf and fstab should be fine. >>> >>> You will need to install grub on the new drive tho. I usually do that >>> from the Gentoo CD myself. >>> >>> Hope it all goes well. >>> >>> Dale >>> >>> :-) :-) >>> >> Me and my sucky typing. Make that cp -a instead. That may work better. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > > Right, so when I've finished copying the partitions to the new disk, I swap > the disks and boot with the Gentoo live CD and follow the instructions from > the install handbook: > > Default: Setting up GRUB using grub-install > To install GRUB you will need to issue the grub-install command. However, > grub-install won't work off-the-shelf since we are inside a chrooted > environment. We need to create /etc/mtab which lists all mounted filesystems. > Fortunately, there is an easy way to accomplish this - just copy > over /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab, excluding the rootfs line if you haven't > created a separate boot partition. The following command will work in both > cases: > Code Listing 5: Creating /etc/mtab > # grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab > > Now we can install GRUB using grub-install: > Code Listing 6: Running grub-install > # grub-install --no-floppy /dev/hda > > If you have more questions regarding GRUB, please consult the GRUB FAQ or > the GRUB Manual. > Continue with Rebooting the System. > > Cheers! > >
If I recall correctly, mount the partitions, chroot in, do the env-update and I always do the source /etc/profile too, just in case. Then do the grub part. Thanasis seems to have that explained very well. Someone step up if I messed a step here. Dale :-) :-)
