Dying HD and MBR

[William Park]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:58:31PM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> I am looking for advice as to how to move my master boot record.  I have
> two IDE HDs, hda and hdb.  Everything is on hdb - hda isn't even
> mounted.  However, the MBR is on hda.  hda is showing SMART errors on
> boot, but I can continue when I hit F1 - and as long as I get a clean
> read of the MBR once, I'm up and running.  The question is, I want to
> pull hda without leaving myself in an unbootable state.  The boot loader
> is grub.  Any suggestions?  Thanks.

Boot from your Install CD, install grub in /dev/hdb, and include 2nd
disk in the boot order.

Or, pull /dev/hda, boot from Install CD, move /dev/hdb to /dev/hda,
and install grub.

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