man grub<br>
<br>
or check the grub homepage<br>
<br>
i guess this is a very well commented thing.<br>
<br>
a short cut:<br>
<br>
root=/dev/yourhd<br>
<br>
for the dd options:<br>
<br>
dd if=/dev/yourmbrpart of=/target/dir/file bs=512 count=1<br>
<br>
more informations under:<br>
<a href="http://www.dbg.rt.bw.schule.de/lehrer/ritters/info/linux/clone.htm">http://www.dbg.rt.bw.schule.de/lehrer/ritters/info/linux/clone.htm</a><br>
<br>Greetings<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Khaled</b> <<a href="mailto:khaled@ipbill.com">khaled@ipbill.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">BUT
how? I have no idea what commands to right...</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Thanks
for replying.</font></span></div><span class="sg">
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Khaled</font></span></div></span><div><span class="e" id="q_107093347e651967_2">
<blockquote>
<div align="left" dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">-----Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b>
<a href="mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>]<b>On
Behalf Of </b>Oliver Leitner<br><b>Sent:</b> 19 October 2005
15:03<br><b>To:</b> For users of Fedora Core releases<br><b>Subject:</b> Re:
installing a grub/lilo bootloader on the MBR of a MOUNTED
hddy<br><br></font></div>one way that i might think of is to tell grub per
commandline input which hd to take as root hd.<br><br>the other is to clone
the mbr via dd and put it onto your cloned disk.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Khaled</b>
<<a href="mailto:khaled@ipbill.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">khaled@ipbill.com</a> >
wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi<br>could
you give me instructions on exactly what to do please...<br>Ive never done
this before and dont really understand bootloaders very well.
<br>Khaled<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com</a><br>[mailto:
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</a>]On Behalf Of <a href="mailto:akonstam@trinity.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">akonstam@trinity.edu</a><br>Sent: 19
October 2005 14:01<br>To: For users of Fedora Core releases<br>Subject: Re:
installing a grub/lilo bootloader on the MBR of a MOUNTED
<br>hddy<br><br><br>On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:51:18AM +0100, Khaled
wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> I have duplicated a running server
(sella) on my network to an empty hdd<br>> (sellaCone) mounted as
/mnt/sellaClone on another hdd hosting Fedora 3 <br>(host<br>> hdd=hda,
sellaClone=hdc). Since I am cloning only the primary partition,<br>> only
hdc2 is being cloned (suse 9.2 puts swap partition as hdc1).<br>><br>>
My problem is that having duplicated all imported info/directories, I need
<br>> to create a bootloader on the MBR so that the disk can be booted on
its<br>own.<br>> The question is how can I do this?<br>><br>>
Please advise...<br>><br>> Many thanks.<br>><br>> Khaled<br>Boot
using rescue disk or Disk one and type linux rescue. The mount <br>the
partition containing root directory. The run grub-install
using<br>--root-directory=DIR
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