On Monday 22 November 2004 01:50, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am So, den 21.11.2004 schrieb Sharon Kimble um 15:53: > > In the near future I want to change the hard drive that this machine > > boots from, the one where the whatever it is, is in the mbr. Is there any > > way in which this 'whatever it is' can be saved to a CD, so that I can > > still boot into linux after I've installed windows 2000 on the new drive, > > and then put the 'whatever it is' into the new mbr? > > > > Sharon. > > Don't know what you plan with the CD, but you should certainly become > common with grub. I.e. see following article > > http://www.fedoranews.org/contributors/bob_kashani/grub > > Maybe see further grub documents and the manpages. > > In general the MBR can be kept into a file by running > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/mbr.saved bs=512 count=1 > > given that the drive with holding the MBR is the primary ATA drive. > > Alexander Of course, restoring that on a different drive sutffs up the partition table big time. A week or so ago I move my (Debian) Linux system to a new drive. Here's what I did. 0. Install new drive:-) 1. Insert old drive into a disk caddy. 2. Boot from CD. I likely used Knoppix, but anything wth a decent toolset including Fedora/Red Hat's CD will do. 3. (very carefull) dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda bs=$((1024*1024)) Once that completed I had a 30 Gb disk image at the front of a 120 Gb disk. 4. e2fsck -a /dev/hda1 e2fsck -a -F /dev/hda2 5. fdisk /dev/hda # Delete hda2 and create a new bigger one. About 40 Gb in this case 6. resize2fs /dev/hda2 7. e2fsck -a /dev/hda2 At this point I have 80 Gb into which I could (were I so foolish:-)) install Windows XP. Having done that, I'd reboot from CD and reinstall grub: install-grub '(hd0)' # or similar. -- Cheers John
