[ale] replacing disk sda

[Paul Cartwright]

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On 04/23/2014 02:32 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> I would hope that clonezilla would do the same right thing.  Looks like
> it did.
yes, it does:) at least I was able to see the grub menu and my options.
>
>> > are there other ways to backup the MBR that include the bootloader (
>> > grub?) info?
> dd if=/dev/sda of=mbr bs=512 count=1
>
> Restore works the other way with the proviso that, if you make any
> changes to the location of the /boot partition or restore a logical
> backup, you'll probably have to rerun grub[2]-install to reinstantiate
> the new information.
> 
I did that, and catted the file... not a text file, but I did see the
word Grub in it... definitely not just the text partition table.
Something else I saw that I didn't like: DiskRead Error..


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Paul Cartwright
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