On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:58:48 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:54:52AM -0800, ann kok wrote:
Hi all
I use tar to copy from one harddrive to 2nd harddrive
this doesn't do what you think it does. it only copies files from one
hard drive to another.
then i put the harddrive to another same harddrive
computer. how can I make it bootable?
you need to edit the partition table to make the particular partition
bootable *and* you need to install a boot loader in either the MBR or
in the partition's BR.
AFAIK grub can boot a partition if it is bootable or not, otherwise you
couldn't have multi-boot setups. But you probably need to put it in the
MBR for that (and not on a partition).