Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
> From: Les Mikesell Sent: October 7, 2007 18:53
>
>> OK, you just have to replace the drive, fdisk matching partitions on it
>> ("fdisk -l /dev/sde" will show the sizes you need), then use
>> mdadm --add /dev/md? /dev/sda?
>> for each one to add the missing partition back.
>>
>
> I have been able to review all this and it looks very straight forward.
>
>
>> Then reinstall grub on the drive.
>>
>
> Now I have some questions:
>
> 1. Since the /boot partition was mirrored and will be restored on the
> new sda drive I do not really want to do a full grub install. From
> what I have read that will overwrite existing /boot/grub/grub.conf
> file. So I just want to write the MBR on the drive. How to I do
> that (the docs I have found were rather unclear on that aspect)?
>
>
Boot the system from CD or similar in Rescue Mode and then use something
like
grub-install --no-floppy /dev/hda
> 2. Can a install grub on the replaced boot drive with the system still
> running?
>
> TIA
>
> Regards, Hugh
>
>
Yes