Replacing old hard disk with a new one

[Paul Smith]

On 10/27/05, Joachim Backes <backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> > > Now, I am using a Knoppix liveCD, and having some progress:
> > >
> > > $ grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/hdc1/boot/ /dev/hda
> > > /dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
> > > $
> >
> > Now, I have MS Windows installed on a partition of hda, but still getting:
> >
> > root at 1[knoppix]# grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/hdc1/boot/ /dev/hda
> > /dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
>
> Did you use the --recheck option in grub-install? This helped me
> sometimes.

Thanks a lot, Joachim. The option --recheck did the trick and the
nightmare is at last over!

Paul