Re: Replacing failed drive in software RAID

[Veljko <veljko3@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 03:13:51PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > I don't know either, but in case that boot sector is not copied, could I just
> > copy first 446 bytes? It is the place where MBR is located, without touching
> > partition table. So could something like this work:
> > 
> > dd if/dev/sdb of /dev/sda bs=446 count=1
> 
> I guess no. When installed in the MBR, grub usually installs another
> part in the unallocated space between the MBR and the first partition.
> Use grub-install (or install-grub, I never remember) instead.

Thanks Pascal, guess I'll just use grub-install.

Regards,
Veljko