Whats the possibility of sucessfully moving the Grub boot loader to a different partition?

Anyone know how to do it?

Quote from: brummie

Whats the possibility of sucessfully moving the Grub boot loader to a different partition?

Anyone know how to do it?

eh?

Where do you want to move it to?

GRUB resides in the MBR doesnt it? if you move it, it will not work...

Or am i wrong?

You are correct.

The drive it currently resides on though i want to pull out the system.

I have 3 SATA dives and 1 IDE drive
Windows was installed about 12months ago on a mirrored SATA array.
I then added the IDE disk and installed ubuntu on the 3 SATA. That left
the MBR on the IDE disk (silly me). I can pull the IDE disk out and use windows ok but i dont want to. So i would like the MBR on one of the SATA disks. Preferably the Ubuntu one.

By the time you work it out you could probably have backed up and reinstalled

Goblin

Dont move it, reinstall it where you want it using an aborted install of Ubuntu.

More info is at ubuntuforums.org. Have a search, its quite simple actually.

Youll have to make a new one. Id just edit fstab so it mounts back under wherever your / partition is.

So in my case:

/dev/hdb1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hdb2       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda2       /tmp            ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda3       none            swap    sw              0       0

Its just a matter of nixing the "/dev/hda2       /tmp " line

When you remove that line, then /temp just automatically defaults to under wherever youve mounted /

Youre all bad luck and club feet when it comes to Ubuntu, poor thing.

Did you format? Or just edit /etc/fstab wrong? If the latter, just use a live CD, mount the offending partition and edit away.

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#            
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hdb1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hdb2       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda2       /tmp            ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda3       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hdd        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/sda        /media/usb0     auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hda1       /media/xp  ntfs    nls=utf8,umask=0222 0       0
/dev/hdb3       none            swap    sw              0       0

Mines pretty crazy as I threw some swap and /temp onto the first drive (hda:XP) for giggles.

If you have three partitions: /, /home, and swap, with XP on the first and Ubuntu on the 2nd drive, a basic fstab should look like this:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#            
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hdb1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hdb2       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hdd        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/sda        /media/usb0     auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hda1       /media/xp  ntfs    nls=utf8,umask=0222 0       0
/dev/hdb3       none            swap    sw              0       0

putting XP under "media" makes that drive show up under "Places"