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Grub is really cool!

By Michael Stepanov | February 23, 2006

AS I already wrote I made a small upgrade of my home PC: I boutgh LCD display and new hard drive. I installed the hard drive as a master and an old one as slave. The problem was I had two OS on the old disk - Linux and Windows and used GRUB as boot loader. After adding new hard disk and installing Windows there I couldn’t boot Linux anymore. I had to change boot options in BIOS to boot from slave disk and use Linux. It was terrible! Thanks to Yoshinori K. Okuji for excellent tool GRUB. I just loaded GRUB shell:
[root@maverik ~]$ grub
chose root (hd0 - master, hd1 - slave, but because I booted from slave it’s hd0 and master - hd1):

grub> root (hd0,5)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

and copied GRUB files to the master hard drive:

grub> setup (hd1,5)

As result I can boot new or previous version of Windows and Linux! Thanks to GRUB and Linux :)

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