Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)

[Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Alvin Oga wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Matt Price wrote:
>
>
> > non-identical, old disks which likely have bad sectors (so don't want to
> > dd if=/dev/hde of=/dev/hdf or similar).
>
>
> good ...  than use tar or cp  or any other fs dependent copying
>
>
> > so then, question is:  how to run grub, preferably non-interactively,
> > in such a way that it actually works (which I guess means, in such a
> > way that it finds the stage2 file in /boot/grub).
>
>
> assuming that you can boot it as /dev/hde, /dev/hdf, it does NOT
> mean that it will boot as /dev/hda
>
> trivial way to make it boot as /dev/hda:
> 	- assuming you are currently booting from /dev/hda to make the
> 	clone
> 		dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hde bs=446 count=1

I just checked, and with a floppy at least, it preserved the last
bytes on the disc. So It appears that Alvin is correct. This
should not wipe the PT portion of the MBR.

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Mike
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