MBR To 2nd Drive

[Randy Jonasz]

On 12/5/06, John Moniz <john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I'd like to help out a friend of mine with a drive mishap. He has a PC
> with two hard drives, Windows of some sort on the primary master, Red
> Had (maybe Fedora?) on the primary slave. He uses Grub as a boot loader.
> There is no floppy drive on this machine, so he never made a boot disk,
> but he does have access to a Knoppix CD.
>
> His master drive died. He would like to make his linux drive the master
> for the moment. What can he do to have the MBR set up in the linux
> drive? I would suspect that it takes more than just changing the grub
> configuration.
I just did something like this recently.  I booted off of a Knoppix
CD.  At the command line
grub-install /dev/yourharddrive

You might need to edit menu.lst in /boot/grub to change where the
kernel is found from hd1 to hd0.  After this you should be good to go.

Cheers,

Randy
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