one way that i might think of is to tell grub per commandline input which hd to take as root hd. the other is to clone the mbr via dd and put it onto your cloned disk. <div>On 10/19/05, Khaled <<a href="mailto:khaled@ipbill.com">khaled@ipbill.com</a> > wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi could you give me instructions on exactly what to do please... Ive never done this before and dont really understand bootloaders very well. Khaled -----Original Message----- From: <a href="mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com">fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com">fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com </a>]On Behalf Of <a href="mailto:akonstam@trinity.edu">akonstam@trinity.edu</a> Sent: 19 October 2005 14:01 To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: installing a grub/lilo bootloader on the MBR of a MOUNTED hddy On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:51:18AM +0100, Khaled wrote: > Hi, > > I have duplicated a running server (sella) on my network to an empty hdd > (sellaCone) mounted as /mnt/sellaClone on another hdd hosting Fedora 3 (host > hdd=hda, sellaClone=hdc). Since I am cloning only the primary partition, > only hdc2 is being cloned (suse 9.2 puts swap partition as hdc1). > > My problem is that having duplicated all imported info/directories, I need > to create a bootloader on the MBR so that the disk can be booted on its own. > The question is how can I do this? > > Please advise... > > Many thanks. > > Khaled Boot using rescue disk or Disk one and type linux rescue. The mount the partition containing root directory. The run grub-install using --root-directory=DIR option.. -- ======================================================================= Support wildlife -- vote for an orgy. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484 -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com </a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit <a href="http://www.messagelabs.com/email">http://www.messagelabs.com/email</a> ______________________________________________________________________ -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </a> </blockquote></div> -- Oliver Leitner