Tried to surprise my sister with a replacement hard drive setup with Mint 8. Things didn't turn out as desired.
Installed on a IDE drive connected to a eSATA port. Install went without any concerns and the disc boots perfectly - on my machine. However when connected to hers Grub gets confused. To begin with her BIOS doesn't support USB-HD so I had to connect directly to the IDE ribbon cable. My guess is that the Grub settings are looking for something else connected to SDA1 and SDA2.
Now I'm wondering if there might be a way to create a generic Grub listing such as what a Live-CD would use?
Working with Grub
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Mint-21.0 Mate 64 bit / LMDE-5 64 bit
Gigabyte H370M D3H
Intel G3258
Crucial Ballistic Sport 32GB DDR4 2400
8TB HDD Seagate Baracuda 5400rpm
Gigabyte H370M D3H
Intel G3258
Crucial Ballistic Sport 32GB DDR4 2400
8TB HDD Seagate Baracuda 5400rpm
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bobcollard
Re: Working with Grub
Most likely you are dealing with Grub 2. If so here is a link that may help you:chiefjim wrote:Tried to surprise my sister with a replacement hard drive setup with Mint 8. Things didn't turn out as desired.
Installed on a IDE drive connected to a eSATA port. Install went without any concerns and the disc boots perfectly - on my machine. However when connected to hers Grub gets confused. To begin with her BIOS doesn't support USB-HD so I had to connect directly to the IDE ribbon cable. My guess is that the Grub settings are looking for something else connected to SDA1 and SDA2.
Now I'm wondering if there might be a way to create a generic Grub listing such as what a Live-CD would use?
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.p ... =3106368.0
Re: Working with Grub
That's way beyond my level to work with.
Mint-21.0 Mate 64 bit / LMDE-5 64 bit
Gigabyte H370M D3H
Intel G3258
Crucial Ballistic Sport 32GB DDR4 2400
8TB HDD Seagate Baracuda 5400rpm
Gigabyte H370M D3H
Intel G3258
Crucial Ballistic Sport 32GB DDR4 2400
8TB HDD Seagate Baracuda 5400rpm
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bobcollard
Re: Working with Grub
Sorry, it's all I have.chiefjim wrote:That's way beyond my level to work with.
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gordon.cooke
Re: Working with Grub
Yes Mint8 is Grub2
Along the same vein, if your sisters computer still has its 1st HD and your putting this new one in as the second, then the MBR on the xisting drive doesnt know anything about the new one- in that case it would boot up the same as it used to without the new second drive.
Depending on what the problem is it can be fixed by re-installing grub to the MBR or adjusting the grub.cfg file. HOWEVER- youd likely need a live CD to make the changes, and given that the whole install only takes about 30 minutes, the easiest solution is probably to install the new drive and then just install Mint 8. Unless you did a whole lot of customizing after the install or there is some other reason that justifies taking the time to fix grub.
What exactly happens? Does the drive just fail to boot, or does the grub menu come up but fails to load Mint?However when connected to hers Grub gets confused
The problem could be that when you installed (on your computer) the drive was the second drive on the computer but when you put it in your sisters computer it is being recognized as the first drive. So the drive references in grub.cfg are trying to find a drive that doesnt exist. Without more details-- depending on your setup when you installed, it is possible that when grub was installed to the Master Boot Record, it installed to the MBR on your copmuter's main HD instead of the USB drive. In this case the drive youre swapping to the new computer doesnt have a MBR and wouldnt be able to boot.Installed on a IDE drive connected to a eSATA port.
To begin with her BIOS doesn't support USB-HD so I had to connect directly to the IDE ribbon cable.
Along the same vein, if your sisters computer still has its 1st HD and your putting this new one in as the second, then the MBR on the xisting drive doesnt know anything about the new one- in that case it would boot up the same as it used to without the new second drive.
Depending on what the problem is it can be fixed by re-installing grub to the MBR or adjusting the grub.cfg file. HOWEVER- youd likely need a live CD to make the changes, and given that the whole install only takes about 30 minutes, the easiest solution is probably to install the new drive and then just install Mint 8. Unless you did a whole lot of customizing after the install or there is some other reason that justifies taking the time to fix grub.