I am attempting to upgrade my harddrive by following the Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-To

I added the new drive, partitioned, formated and copied all the files using the third method, my drive layout is a little different but this is the basic idea:

cp -a /bin /boot /dev /etc /home /lib /lost+found /mnt /root /sbin /tmp /usr /var /new-disk
cp -dp /* /.* /new-disk

To install Grub I started the grub shell and did the following, as the new drive was located as /dev/hdd:
root (hd2,0)
setup (hd2)
quit

So now when I move this drive to Primary Master to replace the old drive I get my bootmenu loaded okay but when I select a kernel to boot the drive reads for a minute or two and then I get "Error 25: Disk read error"

The layout of my new drive is as follows
partition 1 is /boot
partition 2 is /var
partition 3 is *swap*
partition 4 is /

menu.lst looks like this:

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-1-k7-smp
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-k7-smp root=/dev/hda4 ro
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-1-k7-smp
savedefault
boot

okay, stupid question. Are the kernels there where they listed in the menu? May be he just cant find them.
Else no clue, as the grub starts normal.
Lars

kernels are in a /boot partition (hda1)

okay, another stupid idea, may be the permissions have changed during copy. though they have the correct permission rights?
Lars

The file permissions are the same.

I also tried booting to Knoppix today with the new drive as hda and installing grub from there using:

root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)

it still gives the same error, also if I edit the grub menu.lst file to point in the wrong place for the kernel I get a different error that the file cannot be found.

Another silly question, you changed the jumper on the new hd to master, right?

Also, for menu.lst:

default=0
timeout=20
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-1-k7-smp
#root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-k7-smp root=/dev/hda4 ro
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.8-1-k7-smp
#savedefault
#boot

The root(hd0,0) does nothing in menu.lst, only works on the grub prompt line.
Don't know what savedefault and boot do, is that some deb thing?

Kevin

yep The drive is the primary master.