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

[Oliver Leitner]

man grub

or check the grub homepage

i guess this is a very well commented thing.

a short cut:

root=/dev/yourhd

for the dd options:

dd if=/dev/yourmbrpart of=/target/dir/file bs=512 count=1

more informations under:
http://www.dbg.rt.bw.schule.de/lehrer/ritters/info/linux/clone.htm

Greetings

On 10/19/05, Khaled <khaled at ipbill.com> wrote:
>
> BUT how? I have no idea what commands to right...
>  Thanks for replying.
>  Khaled
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
> fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]*On Behalf Of *Oliver Leitner
> *Sent:* 19 October 2005 15:03
> *To:* For users of Fedora Core releases
> *Subject:* Re: installing a grub/lilo bootloader on the MBR of a MOUNTED
> hddy
>
> 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
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com ]On Behalf Of
> > akonstam at trinity.edu
> > 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..
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