Alfred von Campe wrote: > So I installed a second drive in my system today, and instead of > typing "mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1" I did a "mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1". > Fortunately, that was just my /boot partition. I thought I could just > copy the contents from the /boot partition from another system, but > that didn't work as expected. The again, I don't have another system > that's identical to the mine. > > What is the best way to re-create the /boot partition for my system? grub.conf will be the main problem... and possibly whats in the initrd if extra drivers need to be loaded to complete the boot (I believe this is built by mkinitrd) # ls -lR /boot /boot: total 9931 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62154 Jul 10 04:34 config-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62150 Mar 15 17:19 config-2.6.18-8.el5 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 23 17:59 grub -rw------- 1 root root 2206532 Jul 23 17:59 initrd-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.img -rw------- 1 root root 2206505 Jul 23 10:30 initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Jul 23 03:22 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80032 Apr 1 07:49 message -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83542 Jul 10 04:34 symvers-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83542 Mar 15 17:20 symvers-2.6.18-8.el5.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 884809 Jul 10 04:34 System.map-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 884787 Mar 15 17:19 System.map-2.6.18-8.el5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1765588 Jul 10 04:34 vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1765428 Mar 15 17:19 vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 /boot/grub: total 207 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63 Jul 23 10:32 device.map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7616 Jul 23 10:32 e2fs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7456 Jul 23 10:32 fat_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6720 Jul 23 10:32 ffs_stage1_5 -rw------- 1 root root 738 Jul 23 17:59 grub.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6720 Jul 23 10:32 iso9660_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Jul 23 10:32 jfs_stage1_5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 23 10:32 menu.lst -> ./grub.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6880 Jul 23 10:32 minix_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9248 Jul 23 10:32 reiserfs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5427 Apr 1 07:49 splash.xpm.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jul 23 10:32 stage1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104924 Jul 23 10:32 stage2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7040 Jul 23 10:32 ufs2_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6272 Jul 23 10:32 vstafs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8864 Jul 23 10:32 xfs_stage1_5