[nflug] ghosting dual boots and grub

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Eric Benoit wrote:

> I'm trying to ghost disk to disk a dual boot of debian and WinXP 
> ...the first ghost worked great
> now none of the rest of them of the same type disks work right, GRUB 
> goes into an infinit loop with the newly created disk.  So, far the 
> only way I have been able to resolve this is by reinstalling Debian... 
> does anyone Know why this would be happening?
>
> Thank in advance, eric
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I've seen that before, you really should just have used ghost to do the 
windows partition and dump or tar for the Linux stuff. My guess would be 
that the mbr didnt get written properly or was deleted. I wouldn't be 
suprised to see that ghost would default to erasing the mbr knowing that 
windows can boot with a blank one. Before you give up, take one of the 
drives that finished ghosting and boot it with a Linux rescue cd, 
preferably the same version and distro that you have on the drive, then 
mount the Linux side and reinstall grub to the mbr (master boot record), 
"grub-install /dev/hda" assuming you are working with an ide drive as 
master on the first channel. If you hadn't changed the drive layout, 
etc., it should read as it was and all should be ok. Let me know how it 
makes out.
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