[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
More information about the K12OSN
mailing list