Changed bootloader after image restoration
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I have a machine with a HFS+ partition, a vista partition and ext3 & swap partitions. I used the latest stable clonezilla live CD (1.2.1-53) to image from that drive onto a USB drive, then imaged back to a fresh (bigger) hard drive. On the original hard drive the machine booted to the vista bootloader, from where entries allowed booting to the OSX bootloader or grub which were installed in their respective partitions. I made them image, and imaged it back. After doing this, I found that I now booted to grub rather than the vista boot loader. Grub already had an entry for the vista bootloader, and that worked to boot vista on the new hard drive.
Why did the boot loaders change around? Grub was originally installed in it's own partition, but now appears to be in the MBR instead of the vista boot loader. It's not an issue - I am perfectly capable of fixing it - but I'm curious as to why it happenned. I left all settings at their defaults for both the image & restoration.
Thanks!
Rich,
If you accept the default options, actually there is an option called "-g auto", which is used to rerun grub-install when a grub config is found on the restored partitions. I guess this is your case.
Either manually turn off option "-g auto" or you can remove the grub config on your partition.
Steven.
I noticed that but thought it wasn't checked, which would make sense since I'd expect the default options to make an exact copy without any alterations. I guess it was checked & I didn't notice!