Transfer from one virtual hdd to a new virtual hdd

leeand00 · Post by **leeand00** » 26. Jan 2009, 20:28

Over the weekend I tried to move an virtual hdd that was getting to small to a new larger virtual hdd; (running SuSE 10.3) and here is the procedure that I followed:

1. Created a new virtual hdd a larger size than before.
2. Attached new virtual hdd as secondary hdd.
3. Booted with Rescue Disk Live CD.
4. Split the drive with 3 partions using msdos system.
(swap - primary) (root -primary) (home -extended)
5. Flagged root as bootable.
6. Formatted all except swap as ext3.
7. Used "cp -Rf" to copy all of the old partions to the new partions.
8. Edited /etc/fstab so that the /dev/disks/by-id match the id's of
the partitions on the new virtual hdd.
9. Edited /boot/grub/menu.lst so that the /dev/disks/by-id match the id of the root parition.
10. Shutdown.
10. Removed old drive from list of drives.
11. Restarted...and it doesn't boot for some reason.

When I tried to boot it up, it didn't work, I just get a little flashing cursor after the initial Virtual Box screen. Does this have something to do with grub not being installed correctly?

Thank you,
Andrew J. Leer

leeand00 · Post by **leeand00** » 27. Jan 2009, 19:24

*bump*

Post by **Sasquatch** » 28. Jan 2009, 01:59

That's because you need a proper MBR. You don't have any link in the MBR to your grub menu. Boot the recovery cd, or download SuperGrub and restore your Grub install. There are plenty of howto's on the web.