I used to have a dual boot PC with Linux on hdb and Xp on hda. Now I've moved the linux hard disc to another newer pc, but unfortunately this PC's BIOS will not pick up IDE hards discs. Windows reides on sda. I've given up on booting linux from hdb and instead I've copied the linux partitions onto sda and am using hdb as a storage disc. Now I want too dual boot linux and windows from sda. i'm using Fedora core 3.

I've repartitioned my SATA harddisc /dev/sda to contain the same partitions as my linux partitions on /dev/hdb.
/dev/sda1 is the XP ntfs partition
I've copied my /boot partition on /dev/hdb1 to /dev/sda2
I've copied my / partition on /dev/hdb2 to /dev/sda3
I copied them by logging onto the linux rescue disc and typed

# dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/sda2
# dd if=/dev/hdb2 of=/dev/sda3

OK this worked and the fedora disc even picks up /dev/sda2 as another fedora partition.
BUT.....

Firstly when I log onto the /dev/sda3 root partition,using the rescue disc, it will not mount its corressponding root partition (/dev/sda2).
Secondly, and most importantly, after I mount the boot parition and cd to /boot/grub, when I run

# grub-install /dev/sda
It gives an error
The file /boot/grub/stage2 not read correctly

This must have something to do with the fact that the files in /dev/sda2 and in /dev/sda3 must still be pointing to /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb2 I guess. Well hopefully someone here knows what I've done wrong, and how to fix it. Thanks in advance of course

"Firstly when I log onto the /dev/sda3 root partition,using the rescue disc, it will not mount its corressponding root partition (/dev/sda2).
Secondly, and most importantly, after I mount the boot parition and cd to /boot/grub, when I run

# grub-install /dev/sda
It gives an error
The file /boot/grub/stage2 not read correctly"


Before you run grub-install you have to edit the grub configuration file to change all of the hard disc address in the configuration file. On SuSE the file is called /boot/grub/menu.lst. Other distributions give it a different name. If you don't know how to edit the grub config file here is the grub manual.

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html

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Steve Stites

http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints...s_cloning.html

Take a look at that

Never been a fan of copying partitions with dd, but everyone else seems to use it.
For the grub issue, you need to be root.
If you want to install to /boot, you'll need otherwise it'll go to root directory.
I'd probably be inclined to delete the entire grub directory, and re-install grub. But I don't know what is the accepted way of doing that on FC.