On Thursday 29 April 2004 17:52, Enda wrote:
> >> I would be very surprised if you could copy the MBR in this way.
> Its perfectly valid to copy the MBR in this way, but the values will
> probably be wrong. If its a lilo boot loader, you'll need to edit the old
> /etc/lilo.conf and point the moutn points to the scsi instead of the ide,
> and write it to the MBR using lilo -C path_to_edited_lilo.conf
What is the point of copying the MBR
if you then use LILO or grub-install to write it out again?
IMO there is zero probability of an MBR from one disk working on another,
so as I said it seems entirely pointless to copy it.
Of course there is some point in copying the MBR with dd
for later re-copying to the same disk if something goes wrong,
particularly if you are using an obsolete boot loader like LILO.
> >> I would use "cp -a" as you suggest.
> However, I'd recommend using the r switch too, cp -ar
On my system (Fedora-1) cp -a already includes -r = --recursive .
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