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Re: How to move the master boot record?
Date: Fri Jun 29 2007 - 09:33:09 EDT
Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In my computer the master boot record is installed in /dev/hda6. Suppose I
>> want to move it and have it installed in /dev/hda9: is it possible, and how?
"Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net> writes:
> There is only one master boot record per drive. hda6 and hda9 are two
> partitions of the same drive, namely, drive hda.
>
> Perhaps you mean that hda6 is the "/boot" partition, and you wish
> /boot to be hda9 ?
>
> You need to provide us with more information.
Yes, you're right, I'll try to better explain myself.
On my PC, besides the swap partition, I have one partition, hda1, for MS Windows and another five for Linux: hda6, had7, hda8, hda9, hda10.
At the moment the `boot partition' is hda6 and I want it to be, say, hda9. Sorry if I can'y use the right words. Maybe I should say that the hda6 Grub boot loader is now installed to the master boot record of my hard drive whereas the hda9 boot loader is installed to the /dev/hda9 partition?
I want to do so beacuse: now I'm still using Debian Sarge, which is installed in hda6; I want to install Debian Etch in hda9; then when I'm sure that everything is all right with Etch I want to boot from hda9, so hda6 can be formatted again.
I hope that now it is clear enough what I want.
Thanks for any help
Rodolfo
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