I have two SATA drives (data and backup) in addition to the primary SATA drive which houses two ext3 partitions (/ and /home) plus a swap partition. Nothing else on that primary SATA drive. I only back up the primary SATA and as a newbie I presume hd0 is the place for the boot record.
Using GParted, I find this drive is partitioned so: /dev/sda2 Subdivided into /dev/sda6 / /dev/sda7 /home /dev/sda5 swap /dev/sda1 is not mentioned. Where should the grub setup command point to? hd0? hd0,1? The Oort Cloud? Your suggestion about using dd confuses me. Will this generate a second file that should be kept with the tar file? Appended to it somehow? How do I use it This very frustrating for a newbie who wants to learn an alternative to the Totalitarian Microsoft Machine (sigh). Thank you Word Wizard On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 18:29 -0700, Bill Barry wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Word Wizard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > .... > It gets worse. I tried booting from the distro DVD > (Intrepid) and > using grub to 'find /boot/grub/stage1'. > > grub finds it (hd0,5). That's the correct location. I use the > sudo su, > then the root (hd0,5) command. No error messages. I use the > setup (hd0) > command and the output says it found the /boot/grub/stage1 > file and is > writing (hd0)/boot/grub/menu/.lst. > > BUT... It does not write (hd0)/boot/grub/menu/.lst. Anywhere. > I check > the root drive and the old /boot/grub/menu/.lst is still > there. Even if > I rename it, no new menu.lst appears . > > > What am I doing wrong? Or is Linux still not ready for prime > time and > only for hackers? > > > > > Do you have a separate boot partition? Maybe (hd0,1) or (hd0,2) etc is > your boot partition > and the menu.lst you need to be editing is in one of those partitions. > It can happen that their are actual grub files in hd(0,5), but that > those are not the ones pointed to by the grub MBR. The one thing > your tar file did not back up is the MBR. To make the backup complete > you should > dd if=/dev/hda of=MasterBoootRecordBackup bs=512 count=1 > > Another possibility is that booting from the DVD changes the drive > order, and when you boot again without the DVD, the drive has changed > name. This is the problem the UUID stuff is supposed to fix. So you > can have ugly drive specifications, or drive specifications that > change from under your feet. This is not really a linux problem per > se, but a problem with the BIOS. > > Bill Barry > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
