On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Oliver Rath <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rustom! > > Am 22.04.2011 10:22, schrieb Rustom Mody: >> Does grub work if it points to a logical partition? > > There should be no problem doing this. > >> >> In my earlier post >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-grub/2011-04/msg00033.html >> I replicated a disk in which the original /boot was moved from >> primary to logical -- so asking > > For grub it doesnt matter which kind of partition you are using. But > importantly you need to refresh the master boot record of the new disk > with the appropriate grub boot entry, if you want to use it standalone > in a new computer.
Well I am not sure but Ive tried: 1. dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc (running from the new disk) 2. grub-install /dev/sda 3. and now setting the boot flag Is there some easy way of debugging the MBR? Nevertheless the disk remains in state: "No bootable device..." The strange part is that the installs above claim to go through without problem! > > Nevertheless you need to adjust the grub menu boot entries to the new > partition schema. As said above, not reaching that far... > > Hth Unfortunately not yet -- but thanks for trying :-) Rusi _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
