[Liverpool] Problems with hard disk

[Mark Atherton]

David Watson wrote:

>On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:40:14 -0000 (GMT), djbanksie at dsl.pipex.com
><djbanksie at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>Try grub-install /dev/hda
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>without the number installs it to the mbr
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for some reason ive always stuck with lilo. Ive read about grub, and i 
agree that it is more flexible and pretty damn powerful. But still there 
is just something i like about lilo. Anybody else have boot loader 
preferences?