Re: writing MBRs disk numbering

2009-08-21 Thread Wojtek SWIATEK
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 13:06, Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 19.08.2009, 12:58 +0200 schrieb Wojtek SWIATEK: I have never used grub-install (only grub in much simpler configurations) and I will give it a try. Is there a way to instruct grub-install to use the

Re: writing MBRs disk numbering

2009-08-19 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 17:44 +0200 schrieb Wojtek SWIATEK: My question is the following: what exactly should I do to write the MBR to /dev/hda1 using the config above. In practical terms I can access it by mounting /dev/sda1 at /mnt (and then access the config file via

Re: writing MBRs disk numbering

2009-08-19 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 19.08.2009, 12:58 +0200 schrieb Wojtek SWIATEK: I have never used grub-install (only grub in much simpler configurations) and I will give it a try. Is there a way to instruct grub-install to use the configuration from another place than the current /boot/grub/grub.conf? In

Re: writing MBRs disk numbering

2009-08-19 Thread Wojtek SWIATEK
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:06, Felix Zielcke fziel...@z-51.de wrote: Am Dienstag, den 18.08.2009, 17:44 +0200 schrieb Wojtek SWIATEK: My question is the following: what exactly should I do to write the MBR to /dev/hda1 using the config above. In practical terms I can access it by

writing MBRs disk numbering

2009-08-18 Thread Wojtek SWIATEK
Greetings everyone, I have a hard time understanding some points around disk numbering in the scenario I have. Background: The setup is a laptop with an internal disk (/dev/sda) and an external USB drive (/dev/sdb). The OS (Linux) is installed on the USB drive, the internal one has a working