[K12OSN] Moving the /boot partition

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Wed Jun 7 19:19:32 UTC 2006


Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 15:10:00 -0400 (EDT), Jim McQuillan wrote
>> Jim,
>>
>> You also have to run 'grub' and tell it to install itself in the mbr 
>> of that disk (container).
>>
>> Unfortunately, i'm not well versed in the method for doing that.
> 
> thanks, thats a start.  I'll start reading on how to run "grub".  See you next
> week!
> 

Take a look at the grub-install man page. Usually you can get away with
just specifying the drive (or partition) that contains the MBR. Such as:

	grub-install /dev/sda

if you are booting off of the first SCSI device.


Back-ups and rescue boot disks are a pre-requisite ;-)


-Eric




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