GRUB corrupts when restore it from image

[Norman Gaywood]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 01:03:12PM -0400, Barry Yu wrote:
> I used ghost to make an image out of  entire partition of FC1, when I 
> used this image to restore back to the original partition, GRUB always 
> freezes when booting up, and I have to use the FC1 CD to boot into 
> rescue mode and mount into system shell, issue "grub-install /dev/hda7". 
> Is ther any way to overcome this imperfection?

Sounds like a ghost problem. Why not use something that is Free and you
have a better chance of getting support:

http://www.partimage.org

Also, dd is a useful tool to backup the MBR of a disk. Details of that
in the partimage documentation.

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