Zhang Weiwu wrote:
Hello.
After installed additional 320GB harddisk to my desktop computer which used to have OpenSuSE 10.2 installed on single harddisk (80GB), naturally I prefer using the new and fast harddisk for '/' and use the old and slow harddisk for data only (e.g. /var)
So, using fdisk I preserved space for '/' on the new harddisk, and use 'rsync -ravxD' to move all data from old '/' to the new partition on new harddisk. Next step is to make the new harddisk bootable, I did by running: # grub
root (hd1,1) setup (hd1) quit
Then I set hd1 to be the booting harddisk in my BOIS settings. Reboot. I didn't see the usual grub booting process, I see some random ascii code displayed on screen, ending with a smiling face, and stops there.
I thought it should be simple: 1) copy everything to the new partition on new harddisk (I did with rsync) and 2) make it bootable.
Did I miss anything?
I dunno but I am unsure about your grub entries ie surely they need to state both which hard drive ie hda and then also the partition ie hda1? To my knowledge hda is the first IDE hard drive detected. hdb would be the secondary IDE drive. I am unsure but I think hda is the Primary Master, hdb is Primary Slave etc. If your drives are SATA or SCSI then the drives will be known as sda and sdb. Don't forget to add the partition number after the letters.
Thanks in advance! I am not good at these booting stuff and is learning.
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