Cloneing OS & GRUB trouble

[dave s]

On Thursday 23 Feb 2006 22:45, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:55, dave s wrote:
> > I then take out knoppix and re-boot .... ZIP :(
> >
> > The system starts then a blank screen. Nothing, no kernel loaded so
> > no go. I must be doing something wrong with GRUB. All the files on
> > hda1 are there, the whole OS.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong ?
>
> Clarify "nothing"?
>
> A completely black/blank screen? 

A completely blank screen.

> That would indicate your BIOS is 
> trying to boot from some other device, or you think the 160G drive is
> the primary master but you are mistaken (you may have plugged it into
> the secondary cable for example)

This caddy slot is normally used for my 40GB drive with no problems, there is 
only one caddy slot on my machine so its not a cable issue. knoppix views my 
160GB as hda1 when it is in place so my changed links on the HDD to make it a 
master must be correct (I assume)

>
> A grub screen with nothing on it? That would indicate menu.lst exists
> but is empty

Nope no grub screen

>
> No menu but you do get a grub shell? Normally this comes from stage1_5
> being loaded from the boot sector, and grub can't find it's files
> (usually because of partition naming errors).
>
> What is your partition layout, and is boot it's own partition, or part
> of /?

Its a standard Ubuntu setup, boot being part of /

>
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> Alan McKinnon
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