[nflug] ghosting dual boots and grub

[Eric Benoit]

Cyber,   I found something called grub-disk in synaptec I guess a grub 
recovery ...very simple to use ...boot it up edit the (hd0,0) to reflect 
(hd0,1) click b for boot and wa-la!  Thanks for your help, now I can 
have a good Thanksgiving.

~eric


Cyber Source wrote:

> 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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