On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 13:50 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
All,
I am playing with virtualization on centos 5.
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What is happening with the tar command that is messing up grub and keeping it from booting?
The master boot record (MBR) usually isn't contained in the file system, so tar has no way of copying it.
I recently backed up a small laptop (not enough memory to install Linux, but enough to run it) using g4l, then restored the g4l backup into a qemu virtual disk image. It wouldn't boot. I had to connect a distribution CD iso image, boot into rescue mode, then use the command
grub-install /dev/hda
to make it bootable.
Hope this helps, Rich
Thanks,
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