On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 13:50 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > All, > > I am playing with virtualization on centos 5. <snip> > 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, > > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Rich Huff <rich at richhuff.com>