Restore of /boot

Matthew Carpenter matt
Fri Jun 10 14:28:41 PDT 2005


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Vu Pham wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> When my server goes down, I do a minimal resintallation ( maybe
> with a different partition table ) and do a restore. If I restore
> the /boot then my server hangs at the GRUB problem. If I do not
> restore the /boot partition then it works but with an old kernel (
> the kernel on the CD ).
>
> How can I restore my /boot ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vu
>
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Vu, why reinstall at all?  This sounds like a Knoppix boot, create
partitions and format, restore from backup (however that was stored),
and then chroot /mnt (or wherever) and run grub's install it.

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