Re: installing a grub/lilo bootloader on the MBR of a MOUNTED hddy

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On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:51:18AM +0100, Khaled wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have duplicated a running server (sella) on my network to an empty hdd
> (sellaCone) mounted as /mnt/sellaClone on another hdd hosting Fedora 3 (host
> hdd=hda, sellaClone=hdc). Since I am cloning only the primary partition,
> only hdc2 is being cloned (suse 9.2 puts swap partition as hdc1).
> 
> My problem is that having duplicated all imported info/directories, I need
> to create a bootloader on the MBR so that the disk can be booted on its own.
> The question is how can I do this?
> 
> Please advise...
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> Khaled
Boot using rescue disk or Disk one and type linux rescue. The mount
the partition containing root directory. The run grub-install using 
--root-directory=DIR option..
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