[Liverpool] Problems with hard disk

[David Watson]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:40:14 -0000 (GMT), djbanksie at dsl.pipex.com
<djbanksie at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> Okay, my elder brother's hard disk which he gave to me (Maxtor 7200rpm
> 40GB jobby) decided that it would fail S.M.A.R.T tests. I backed up
> everything on the server and managed to do a copy of /dev/hda1, hda6, hda7
> and hda8 onto my newly formatted 40GB 5400rpm ex-Windows hard disk. No
> problems there. Everything copied smoothly.
> 
> Boot into Knoppix and tried to get grub setup. I chroot into /dev/hda1
> root directory and cannot figure out what the command to configure grub
> is. I've tried a number of things, grub-install /, grub-install ./,
> grub-install /dev/hda1 and so on, just cannot figure it out. Spent nearly
> three hours trying to get it working. It's probably in the manpages
> somewhere, but I really don't want to be plowing through tons of jargon
> which could be the key to my solution.
> 
> Anyway, failing that, I'll try Ubuntu. Got Warty Release burnt last night.
> One question about that, does it pre-configure all the devices on my
> machine before installation?
> 

Try grub-install /dev/hda

without the number installs it to the mbr


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