[nflug] ghosting dual boots and grub

[Cyber Source]

My pleasure, glad to hear you got it goin. To you and all, have a good 
T-day!

Eric Benoit wrote:

> 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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