[ale] replacing disk sda

[Derek Atkins]

Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com> writes:

> 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..

Yeah, that DiskRead error would happen if it didn't find a good boot
loader code at the right place.

Do you remember the days of LILO?  Ever see it print LI and then die?
That's because the MBR pointed to the wrong place for the secondary boot
loader.

-derek
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