GRUB question

Jay Mistry jaylinux53 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 16:46:12 UTC 2009


On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Daniel B. Thurman<dant at cdkkt.com> wrote:

>  Everything is now copied over but I am
> still in doubt of the new drive's MBR sector.
>
> Question: using gparted, does it also include
> the boot sector MBR when copying over the
> first partition or do I have manually copy the
> boot sector over or to apply the grub-install?
>
> If so, what is the best way to ensure that the
> MBR is on the new drive?
>
> Thanks!
> Dan

For a home PC Clonezilla Live CD (http://www.clonezilla.org/) can be
used; there are options to backup MBR for an active/boot partition,
which I think is saved as a separate file in the saved image
directory.

Jay


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