grub problem

[Kenneth]

--- "der.hans" <PLUGd at LuftHans.com> wrote:

> In all cases when the original drives was in it was on SATA1 with 2-4
> being the other on board SATA connectors.
> 
> Could I dd the first 512 bytes off the original drive onto one of the new
> drives and have any hope that the system would actually boot off the new
> drive?

I wouldn't expect that to help. If grub-install and setup from the grub
prompt don't write that 512 bytes, then I would think you have a more serious
problem.  Shouldn't hurt anything to try it.


> Maybe I should just hit them all.
> for i in `seq 0 2`; do grub-install hd${i},0; done

My memory is short, did you say you also tried grub-install to sda, besides
sda1 or whatever other partition you're using?



 
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