[mythtv-users] new drive won't boot

Mike Chinander chinander at gmail.com
Wed Dec 19 04:12:45 UTC 2018


This is your boot drive? You probably have to run grub on the new drive to
make it bootable. I'm not sure of the exact commands; search for
grub-install.

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 10:03 PM Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Greetings Mythizens, I received my replacement drive from Amazon used
> "rsync" to copy the files from my revived (previously "about to fail")
> drive, swap the two drives and the box doesn't boot. Unswitch and it boots
> fine... unmount storage2, and switch drives and the FE finds storage2
> recordings (on the "rsync'd" drive) then a reboot fails. "fstab" is lookng
> to mount storage1,2&3, storage directories are back to original form, all
> default group, granted it doesn't take much, but I'm stumped! What do I
> need to do to make this drive acceptable to my box? the first of this type
> of drive worked fine, the odds of getting lemons back to back I woud
> imagine to be quite high...Please help, TIA Daryl
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