rsync & grub

[William Park]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:23:52PM -0400, Alan Cohen wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> I've used rsync to backup my entire system /dev/hda to /dev/sda
> (The disk on /dev/sda is an IDE disk in a USB enclosure, so it's
> conveniently removable.) The goal is to make a full functioning,
> bootable backup.
> 
> There are a number of partitions, including /boot
> I mount, then rsync, then umount each /dev/sdaX in turn.
> 
> How do I now use grub to make that 2nd disk bootable?

1.  Make sure your motherboard supports booting from USB device.  If it
    doesn't, ain't nothing gonna happen.

2.  You may need to make small MSDOS boot partition, depending on what
    BIOS expects and does.

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