On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:33 AM, Martin G. McCormick <mar...@server1.shellworld.net> wrote: > > It turns out that the reason I never thought of using mkfs to > build a working boot sector is that mkfs doesn't do that. Grub, > however, does but I am still a bit confused as to how to get it > working. I mounted the new drive on /mnt > #mount /dev/sdf1 /mnt > It's all there. > #chroot /mnt > / is now the top of that directory. > #grub-install /dev/sda > /dev/sda isthere but grub reports it can't find that device and > "is /dev mounted?" This is one of those time you wish siri was > part of Linux and you could yell at her! Seriously, how do I > safely do this so that I make this disk think it is /dev/sda > which will be what it is when it really boots?
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