Re: [Clonezilla-live] Clonezilla-live Digest, Vol 61, Issue 6

[Darr <da...@co...>]

Hi Steven,

On Friday, April 27, 2012 21:04 [UTC -05:00],
Steven Shiau spake thusly:

> On 04/24/2012 05:23 PM, Mark Ellerby wrote:
>> Hi Steven,
>> 
>> I had thought that Clonezilla would install grub to the partition I
>> specified (sda1) after restoring the image to the disk. That is why I
>> used the option '-g /dev/sda1'. It seems that the option '-g auto'
>> works, but it installs grub to the MBR and that's not what I want.
>> 
>> However, I have written a script to install grub to sda1
>> post-restore, which works OK. In that case I leave out the -g option
>> in the osc-sr command line.
>
> Sure! That's a good solution, too.

I don't see how that's a good solution.  If grub is installed on /dev/sda1/boot/grub when cloned, shouldn't it be there when restored, too?
(so we don't have to fix grub every time we restore an image?)

Besides whaever reason Mark has for not wanting it in the MBR, putting grub in the MBR breaks Dell's MBR, which redirects the MediaDirect button from power-off to boot a custom version of CyberLink's PowerCinema (lets you watch DVDs without loading windows and all its services), and having grub in the MBR also prevents Windows7 service packs from installing.