[K12OSN] Need help transfering EL5 from desktop to laptop
Robert Arkiletian
robark at gmail.com
Sun Sep 21 04:31:25 UTC 2008
created 2 partitions on laptop (/ and swap)
formatted them.
mounted both source and target (under /mnt on each machine)
rsync -a / from desktop -> laptop
(Note: OS on desktop is on sdb5. On laptop it's going to sda1)
Now I need to put grub on mbr of laptop
boot: linux rescue
chroot /mnt/sysimage
Here is my problem
grub-install /dev/sda
The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.
Can anyone determine why I'm getting the above error?
I also tried
cp -a /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat/* /boot/grub
no joy
Here is all important info (gathered from linux rescue chroot /mnt/sysimage):
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/boot/grub/device.map
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/sda
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/etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
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/etc/mtab
/dev/sda1 / ext3 rw,defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,defaults 0 0
/dev/sysfs /sys sysfs rw,defaults 0 0
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fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 9500 76308718+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 9501 9729 1839442+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
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/boot/grub/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/md0
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda1
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title CentOS (2.6.18-92.1.10.el5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 ro root=/dev/sda1 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.img
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mount output (in chroot /mnt/sysimage)
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,defaults)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,defaults)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,defaults)
/dev/sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,defaults)
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/boot/grub
total 328
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Sep 20 16:42 device.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7584 Sep 20 20:17 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7456 Sep 20 20:17 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6720 Sep 20 20:17 ffs_stage1_5
-rw------- 1 root root 618 Sep 20 20:17 grub.conf
-rw------- 1 root root 917 Sep 20 20:16 grub.conf.orig
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6720 Sep 20 20:17 iso9660_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Sep 20 20:17 jfs_stage1_5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 20 18:16 menu.lst -> grub.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6880 Sep 20 20:17 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9248 Sep 20 20:17 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5427 Nov 22 2007 splash.xpm.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Sep 20 20:17 stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104956 Sep 20 20:17 stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104956 May 24 14:37 stage2_eltorito
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7072 Sep 20 20:17 ufs2_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6272 Sep 20 20:17 vstafs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8864 Sep 20 20:17 xfs_stage1_5
--------------------------
/boot
total 14720
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 884809 Jun 14 2007 System.map-2.6.18-8.1.6.el5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 912799 Aug 5 05:05 System.map-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 912900 Jun 25 11:13 System.map-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62154 Jun 14 2007 config-2.6.18-8.1.6.el5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65411 Aug 5 05:05 config-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65410 Jun 25 11:13 config-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 20 20:47 grub
-rw------- 1 root root 1523888 Jul 12 19:47 initrd-2.6.18-8.1.6.el5.img
-rw------- 1 root root 2412127 Aug 28 14:48 initrd-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.img
-rw------- 1 root root 2412095 Jul 12 17:31 initrd-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80032 Nov 22 2007 message
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83542 Jun 14 2007 symvers-2.6.18-8.1.6.el5.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 91721 Aug 5 05:05 symvers-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 91734 Jun 25 11:13 symvers-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1765588 Jun 14 2007 vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.1.6.el5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1805620 Aug 5 05:05 vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1805556 Jun 25 11:13 vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5
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Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
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