Re: Is it ok to copy first 446 bytes of MBR between Harddrives of different sizes?

[adrian15]

Jorge Canas escribió:
> If the first 446 bytes of the MBR can be reused, even if the harddrives are of 
> different size, then can someone please throw me a bone and explain why cloning 
> the MBR as described here does not produce a bootable harddrive?

I think that you are talking about Grub legacy and I do not know if it 
is currently supported in this mailing list.

Grub legacy uses something called stage1_5 which it is stored between 
MBR end and the first partition beginning.

As long as you are not copying it the boot fails.
I do not know how to copy stage1_5 but it can be done.

Another workaround is to force grub not to link stage1 to stage1_5 which 
can be done with install command manually or using the Super Grub Disk's 
hacked's grub's setup command. But it is not recommended.

adrian15
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