MBR To 2nd Drive

[John Moniz]

Randy Jonasz wrote:

> 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

Thank you. I received three very good replies (from Simon, Hugh and 
Randy). We are now set to try it out.

Regards,

John.
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