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

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 04:18:47PM +0200, Oliver Leitner wrote:
> 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
NO, NO, NO!
That will copy the MBR and the partition tables. Unless the two disks
are partitioned alike, and maybe they are, the bs=446 should be used.
> 
> 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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