[ale] replacing disk sda

[Preston]

On 4/23/2014 9:35 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 04/23/2014 10:29 AM, Preston wrote:
>>>
>>>
>> here's one of the mbr-backups.
>>
>> pboyington at openmediavault:/media/3b7fcae9-905e-4863-91fb-ddfee3396254/Data/fsarchive-backup$
>> cat mbr-backup-2014-04-15.bak
>> # partition table of /dev/sdf
>> unit: sectors
>>
>> /dev/sdf1 : start=       63, size=224845677, Id=83, bootable
>> /dev/sdf2 : start=224845740, size=  9590805, Id= 5
>> /dev/sdf3 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
>> /dev/sdf4 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
>> /dev/sdf5 : start=224845803, size=  9590742, Id=82
>>
>> maybe you were expecting a hex output like dd does?  this is handled
>> by sfdisk.
> then I guess I misunderstood what is in an MBR:)
> there is nothing there about grub, or what OSes can be booted, just
> the partition start/end/sizes.. I guess I'm getting edumacated:)
> where does the grub info go in the MBR??

GRUB is a boot loader and is in your /boot directory (/boot/grub/).