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| Author: | gwirth [ Mon May 05, 2014 5:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Installing grub2 into LinHES 7.4 |
I have an existing LinHES 7.4 setup that I'm quite happy with except I want to migrate it from its current 500GB drive to a 4TB drive. I know I can't do a normal install and restore so my plan is to partition the disk and format using gparted to be the same layout as the 7.4 system (sda1 for /, sda2 for swap, and sda3 for /myth) and then rsync the old disk to the new disk. I can then boot the new disk using either a grub2 CDROM or USB loader. Ideally I'd like to boot straight from the hard drive using grub2. Is there a way to install grub2 directly into LinHES 7.4 so I can boot directly? I see that there are grub2 packages for LinHES 8.1. Would those work, or is there someplace I can get the grub2 packages that will work with LinHES 7.4? I'm not sure how much customization was done to ArchLinux to make this work. I've seen the thread here: viewtopic.php?f=22&t=23692&p=137051&hilit=grub2#p137051 but it doesn't have the info I need. My LinHES case is tiny and can only accomodate a single drive so adding the 4TB drive as additional storage won't work. |
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| Author: | alien [ Tue May 06, 2014 6:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Installing grub2 into LinHES 7.4 |
I would recommended using clonezilla to clone the whole 500G drive to the 4T drive. Then used gparted to either grow sda3 or create a new sda4 and use storage groups. There are several linux live CDs around with these tools. It will save messing with grub and any other problems such as changing disk UUIDs. |
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| Author: | mattbatt [ Tue May 06, 2014 8:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Installing grub2 into LinHES 7.4 |
Just for the record: Would this also work for 8.x? or is 8.x more complicated? |
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| Author: | RacerX [ Tue May 06, 2014 9:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Installing grub2 into LinHES 7.4 |
I recommend a test drive backup your old drive then pull it Install the 4TB drive then Install R8.1.1 Test it out and see how you like it, If you have any issues (ie, grub) post it Copy your data to the 4tb drive Copy your Linhes backup to the new drive Restore the Linhes backup into R8.1.1 Use the 500Gb drive for something else If your not satisfied then go with clonezilla etc |
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| Author: | brfransen [ Tue May 06, 2014 10:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Installing grub2 into LinHES 7.4 |
gwirth wrote: Is there a way to install grub2 directly into LinHES 7.4 so I can boot directly? I see that there are grub2 packages for LinHES 8.1. Would those work, or is there someplace I can get the grub2 packages that will work with LinHES 7.4? It would be possible to install grub2 in R7.x if you build and test the package yourself. You cannot use the R8.x grub2 package, or any other R8.x package in R7.x, due to the architecture (32 bit vs 64 bit) difference. Upgrading to R8.1 with the new disk would be a much easier course of action unless there is another reason you haven't mentioned for not wanting to go to R8.x.mattbatt wrote: Would this also work for 8.x? or is 8.x more complicated? Installing R8.x on a drive larger than 2TB should just work as it formats as gpt and uses grub2.
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| Author: | gwirth [ Wed May 07, 2014 4:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Installing grub2 into LinHES 7.4 |
I don't want to upgrade because all my front ends are on mythtv-0.25 and can't be upgraded (old hardware and software). LinHES 8.1.1 is on mythtv-0.27 and is incompatible. I would need a significant monetary and time investment to upgrade everything to handle LinHES 8.1.1 |
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| Author: | brfransen [ Wed May 07, 2014 4:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Installing grub2 into LinHES 7.4 |
R8.0 is still mythtv 0.25 and should install to your 4TB drive. |
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