moving stuffs between harddisk

[Man-wai Chang]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 03:56, Man-wai Chang wrote:
>> how do you copy the MBR if you don't use dd?
> 
> You don't. If you use GRUB, you issue the very simple GRUB commands to
> do this. Either to the disk as a whole or to a particular partition. I
> would imagine that there is a LILO counterpart.
> 
> For GRUB:
> 
> 	root (hd0,0)		# Or whatever your disk is
> 
> 	find /boot/grub/stage1	# Verify that the root command is 				# correct.
> This will list the ones
> 				# found.
> 
> 	setup (hd0)		# Install GRUB on disk's MBR.
> 
> 	- or -
> 
> 	setup (hd0,0)		# Install GRUB on disk's first
> 				# partition.

I guess I knew how to do it in lilo (via the boot parameter), but not 
with grub. SO in your example, if I want to write the mbr to /dev/hdc, I 
only need to change:

"setup (hd0)" to "setup (hd2)"

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