Re: [CentOS] How to move my MBR

2008-05-28 Thread Scott Moseman
I was wanting to upgrade (reinstall) but never had a good excuse. I was going to spend more time fiddling around with the MBR and Grub settings than I was going to kill doing a OS reinstall. All of my data was on a separate /home disk, so I just slapped on the new OS, configured a couple

Re: [CentOS] How to move my MBR

2008-05-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Scott Moseman wrote: The BIOS determines which disk (the first) will be chosen to boot from. I have no problems configuring the boot order in the BIOS. I must have the MBR on /dev/hdc (which is being removed). The /boot partition is on /dev/sda (where I want to move MBR). To make a plain

Re: [CentOS] How to move my MBR

2008-05-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Scott Moseman wrote: I copied over the MBR from hdc to sda. I found a 4.4 LiveCD, but apparently its damaged so it wouldn't boot. I attempted to put everything back and when I rebooted it went into a GRUB screen instead of a normal boot. I had no idea how to get it to boot from there, so

Re: [CentOS] How to move my MBR

2008-05-23 Thread Theo Band [GreenPeak]
Scott Moseman wrote: I removed an ATA drive (/home) for a new SATA and my system would not boot. I'm guessing that it put the MBR on that drive instead of the drive that holds the / partition. What's the best way confirm where the MBR resides and, after I verify that's my problem, how I can

Re: [CentOS] How to move my MBR

2008-05-23 Thread Scott Moseman
I also do not see an CentOS 4.x x86_64 Live CD; only i386. Is it not really going to matter, 64b vs 32b, when using that? Thanks, Scott Do I need to move the MBR, remove the old drive, and reboot from a LiveCD in order to have a reconfigure of grub correctly see which drive it should find

Re: [CentOS] How to move my MBR

2008-05-23 Thread Scott Moseman
I copied over the MBR from hdc to sda. I found a 4.4 LiveCD, but apparently its damaged so it wouldn't boot. I attempted to put everything back and when I rebooted it went into a GRUB screen instead of a normal boot. I had no idea how to get it to boot from there, so instead of taking the time

[CentOS] How to move my MBR

2008-05-22 Thread Scott Moseman
I removed an ATA drive (/home) for a new SATA and my system would not boot. I'm guessing that it put the MBR on that drive instead of the drive that holds the / partition. What's the best way confirm where the MBR resides and, after I verify that's my problem, how I can move (or make a copy)