Re: Two systems -- supposed to be the same, but booting with grub differently. What'd I miss?

[my59stang]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017, at 10:17 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> > (a) how SHOULD grub2 be installed in this config?  MBR &/or boot sector?
> 
> MBR. You actually cannot install grub2 in partition in this
> configuration, at least using grub2 native tools.

Ok, good to know.

But notice that the "System 1" bootinfoscript says:

"Grub2 (v1.99-2.00) is installed in the boot sector"

for sda1 & sdb1.  Do I need to REMOVE that?  How?

> > (b) whatever way it should be installed, how do I change the 'wrong on' to 
> > be correct?
> > 
> Just install it in MBR. How to make it persist depends on your distribution.

Ok, I'll do some reading.


> Could you make full output available (pastebin or similar)? What
> distribution do you use? Could you send me content of post-MBR gap from
> both sda and sdb (assuming it is 1MB - dd if=/dev/sda bs=1M count=1
> of=sda.mbr)?

Ok, I'll figure out what that means, and post what I can figure out.

Thanks.

JerryG