Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: How to find and move boot sectors?
Operating Systems Linux Debian How to find and move boot sectors? Post 302756251 by mladen on Tuesday 15th of January 2013 12:59:20 PM
Old 01-15-2013
How to find and move boot sectors?
Hi
A mismatch occurred on my system (Debian, Sid). I've got 3 disks sda, b, c.
Unfortunately, when I was adding a third disk (sdc) it all finished so that both sdb and sdc now have a boot flag. So, the first thing I would like to find out is which disk the system now boots from: sdb or sdc? In which log and how can I find that? The next thing is: If sdb, where is the boot sector? (I would like to erase all files from sdb). Is it in the master boot sector (outside of the partions of the disk) or in the volume boot sector (inside the first partition of the disk)? In which log can I find that and how? If it is in the volume boot sector I must not reformat the disk. The third question is: How can I move the boot sectors? I would like to move the boot sector to sda and remove boot labels from sdb and sdc. But sdc also hosts Windoze 7? Is that a problem. So, I should change grub, fstab, and what else? And how?
Thanks,
Mladen.
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

find move

Hello folks. I have read the forum here, almost came close to using some of the hints but too much info so I need a little nudge. OBJECTIVE: I want to write a script that looks at certain type of files, than move those selected files to another directory, however, keeping the structure (PATH)... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: saswerks
4 Replies

2. Solaris

cannot find boot device and won't boot off cdrom

I'm running solaris 2.5.1. My main development server is DEAD, i can't even boot off the cdrom, it powers up, acts like it is starting the boot process but then says cannot find boot device. I've done the search here on this site and saw the other posts, but at the ok prompt it won't even let me... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: kymberm
3 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

need to move find results

I am looking for files of a certian type and logging them. After they are logged they need to be moved to a different directory. HOw can i incorporate that in my current script? CSV_OUTFILE="somefile.csv" find . -name W\* -exec printf "%s,%s,OK" {} `date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S'` \; > ${CSV_OUTFILE} ... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: pimentelgg
9 Replies

4. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

find and move

Hello I am new to this board. I was looking for a one line command to find the oldest 10,000 files in a directory and move them. I tried such things as: find . -type f | ls -ltr | head -n 10000 -exec mv {} directory/ \; find . -type f | ls -ltr | head -n 50 | xargs mv directory/ \; ... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: natasha80
7 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Find and move

Hello All, /storage3 /storage4 I have written a shell script to locate files older than 7 days in /storage4 folder and move to /storage3.At the same time it will take output as number of files moved and log in a .txt file. It will also find files in /storage3 older than 90 days and remove... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Siddheshk
4 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Find and Move Files up One Level

Hi All, So I have another question. I'm trying to search for files with a certain extension and then move all of them up one level in the folder hierarchy. So something like this: original: /path/to/file/test.txt after: /path/to/test.txt I had some great help recently with another... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ideal2545
4 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Find & move script

Hi all I wrote a little script that search for a file and moves it, its like this: #!/bin/ksh today=`date +"%d_%m_%y"` if ; then mkdir -p /tmp/bigfiles/$today mv $1 /tmp/bigfiles/$today/ echo "moving big file from /home/appcwec " | mailx -s "bigfile" ffff@yyy.com else ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: fretagi
4 Replies

8. Red Hat

Find and move

Greetings.... Trying to find and move the 30 days old logs #!/bin/bash DATE=`date +%d-%b-%Y` STATUSLOG="$HPATH$DATE-E3Backup.log" HPATH="/ABC/Websphere/" HT=`hostname` BKUPSTR="/ABC/Websphere/$HT/" echo "Moving of old logs Started on $HT " >> $STATUSLOG find... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: manju98458
2 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Find and move command with exec

Hi all, I am trying to find files newer than a given file and them mv them to a new location. So I far I have: find . ! -newer <file_name> -exec ls -l {} \; and find . ! -newer <file_name> -exec mv /TEMP_LOCATION {} \; find is not liking this. Anyone know how to modify the last... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jonnyd
2 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Find and Move files

I have the below command to delete all .xml files older than 90 days find . -type f -name '*.xml' -mtime +90 -exec rm {} \; What will be the command to move all the .xml files older than 90 days to this folder -> "/tmp/my_bk" My OS: SunOS my-pc 5.10 Generic_150400-17 sun4v sparc... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohtashims
4 Replies

LEARN ABOUT OSF1

installgrub

installgrub(1M) 														   installgrub(1M)

NAME

       installgrub - install GRUB in a disk partition or a floppy

SYNOPSIS

       /sbin/installgrub [-fm] stage1 stage2 raw-device

       The installgrub command is an -only program. GRUB stands for GRand Unified Bootloader.

       installgrub  installs  GRUB  stage  1  and  stage  2  files on the boot area of a disk partition. If you specify the -m option, installgrub
       installs the stage 1 file on the master boot sector of the disk.

       The installgrub command accepts the following options:

       -f

	   Suppresses interaction when overwriting the master boot sector.

       -m

	   Installs GRUB stage1 on the master boot sector interactively.

       The installgrub command accepts the following operands:

       stage1

	   The name of the GRUB stage 1 file.

       stage2

	   The name of the GRUB stage 2 file.

       raw-device

	   The name of the device onto which GRUB code is to be installed. It must be a character device that is readable and writable.  For  disk
	   devices,  specify  the  slice  where  the  GRUB  menu  file	is  located.  (For Solaris it is the root slice.) For a floppy disk, it is
	   /dev/rdiskette.

       Example 1: Installing GRUB on a Hard Disk Slice

       The following command installs GRUB on a system where the root slice is c0d0s0:

       example# /sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 
		/boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c0d0s0

       Example 2: Installing GRUB on a Floppy

       The following command installs GRUB on a formatted floppy:

       example# mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette /mnt
       # mkdir -p /mnt/boot/grub
       # cp /boot/grub/* /mnt/boot/grub
       # umount /mnt
       # cd /boot/grub
       # /sbin/installgrub stage1 stage2 /dev/rdiskette

       /boot/grub

	   Directory where GRUB files reside.

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       boot(1M), fdisk(1M), fmthard(1M), kernel(1M), attributes(5)

       Installing GRUB on the master boot sector (-m option) overrides any boot manager currently installed on the machine. The system will always
       boot the GRUB in the Solaris partition regardless of which fdisk partition is active.

								    24 May 2005 						   installgrub(1M)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:38 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy