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

[Khaled]

Hello Tim,

Thanks for the message, this I will try on sunday. Am I correct in thinking
that the clone will only boot when connected to the original server's
motherboard (ie in its place) due to specific settings and configs being
copied over. In other words it will fail to boot if on any system  other
than the original?

Thanks for the advice, this is kind of a last measure as I did not want to
take the original server down; it seems that all else has failed (thanks to
all that helped).

Khaled


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Tim
Sent: 19 October 2005 11:35
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: installing a grub/lilo bootloader on the MBR of a MOUNTED
hdd


On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 10:51 +0100, Khaled wrote:

> 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.

I did it this way when I transferred to a bigger drive:

  Do all the drive content copying.
  Remove the old drive, leaving the new drive as the boot drive.
  Boot from the rescue CD.
  Chroot into the drive, as the prompt says.
  Run:  grub-install /dev/hda

Since I was swapping drives, I didn't bother working out if I could
install a bootloader to another drive while the old drive was still in
the box.

For more information, read the GRUB info file, it's more detailed than
its man file.  Or look at its website.
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