![]() This partition also holds a /boot directory. partition 2: 2.5GB root filesystem of the OS I want to boot (Scientific Linux 6.6).partition 1: 512MB of spare space, in case I need it (See note regarding EFI boot). ![]() I tried to work around it by doing a chroot to the machine's filesystem first, but the result seems to be the same. I'm presuming that the device GRUB is missing is the USB stick I used to boot from when installing. However, how do I go about setting up a bootloader? I've tried the usual trick of booting from an external USB and running grub-install /dev/sda, but the issue now is that when I boot the machine without the USB grub starts to complain: "error: no such device: 47f89855-8710-4fca-a395-913f70f7d94c". ![]() After double-checking everything, the hard drive now has the correct data (including the OS) on the correct partitions. This, of course, after setting up the partition table accordingly. ![]() Due to a somewhat odd requirement for a particular Linux installation, with a particular software suite, I found it best to use ddrescue to populate the harddrive with the partitions and their data, taken from a similar setup made a while back. ![]()
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