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

[Oliver Leitner]

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.

On 10/19/05, Khaled <khaled at ipbill.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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> 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..
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