I had some hard-drive free space constraints and bought a new 500GB one. Now I wanted to transfer/migrate my current installation to the new hard-drive. Here’s how to do it. First we need to copy the complete filesystem to the new drive. Connect both the drives to your computer and boot using ubuntu live cd.… Continue reading [How-To] Move your Ubuntu Installation to new hard-drive
Month: November 2009
Recovering GRUB2 after hard-drive upgrade
I upgraded to a 500GB hard-drive and installed windows 7 on it. I then moved my current ubuntu installation from the older HDD to the newer one on another partition, but of course there was no bootloader to load it. I had GRUB2 on older hard drive. I googled about how to recover GRUB2 but… Continue reading Recovering GRUB2 after hard-drive upgrade
[Solved] Ath5k wifi module not working in Karmic Koala
I noticed was my wifi (Atheros AR5001/5007EG) stopped working after I upgraded to Karmic Koala. I searched endlessly on Google without any answer. Then, I remembered that Karmic comes with newer kernel 2.6.31. And ath5k kernel module hasn’t been loaded yet into this newer kernel. So, I simply executed modprobe ath5k in the terminal. And… Continue reading [Solved] Ath5k wifi module not working in Karmic Koala