installing a grub/lilo bootloader on the MBR of a MOUNTED hdd

[Stuart Sears]

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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?
so you have cloned the entire root (/) filesystem on /mnt/sellaCone ?
okay, this might work (assuming everything is in place):
chroot /mnt/sellaCone
/sbin/grub-install /dev/hdc

if there is no /boot directory containing kernels and grub binaries this
will fail fairly horribly, however.

Stuart
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