Re: [gentoo-user] moving my instalation to new hard drive

[Dale]

Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> On Monday 24 December 2007 15:06:36 Dale wrote:
>
>> Dale wrote:
>>
>>> cp- a should work fine.  I have used that several times and no problems
>>> yet.  You can add the -v if you like to see the files scrolling by.
>>>
>>> If you have the same partitions on the new drive as the old drive, your
>>> grub.conf and fstab should be fine.
>>>
>>> You will need to install grub on the new drive tho.  I usually do that
>>> from the Gentoo CD myself.
>>>
>>> Hope it all goes well.
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> :-)  :-)
>>>
>> Me and my sucky typing.  Make that cp -a instead.  That may work better.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
>
> Right, so when I've finished copying the partitions to the new disk, I swap
> the disks and boot with the Gentoo live CD and follow the instructions from
> the install handbook:
>
> Default: Setting up GRUB using grub-install
>  To install GRUB you will need to issue the grub-install command. However,
> grub-install won't work off-the-shelf since we are inside a chrooted
> environment. We need to create /etc/mtab which lists all mounted filesystems.
> Fortunately, there is an easy way to accomplish this - just copy
> over /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab, excluding the rootfs line if you haven't
> created a separate boot partition. The following command will work in both
> cases:
> Code Listing 5: Creating /etc/mtab
>   # grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
>
>    Now we can install GRUB using grub-install:
> Code Listing 6: Running grub-install
>   # grub-install --no-floppy /dev/hda
>
>    If you have more questions regarding GRUB, please consult the GRUB FAQ or
> the GRUB Manual.
>  Continue with Rebooting the System.
>
> Cheers!
>
>

If I recall correctly, mount the partitions, chroot in, do the
env-update and I always do the source /etc/profile too, just in case. 
Then do the grub part.  Thanasis seems to have that explained very well.

Someone step up if I messed a step here.

Dale

:-)  :-)