I have a system that I have installed 3 partitions.
1) Windows 7
2) Recovery/Grub4Dos/etc (hidden from user)
3) Data drive
I have everything working and it is booting with Grub4dos with the menu.lst working as I planned.
However, if I make a full clone of them system using ImageForLinux, including the MBR, and restore it on another machine (also restoring the MBR), I get the following error message, haulting the boot process.
Missing MBR-helper.
I haven't tried it yet, but I imagine if I use grubinst (windows) and reinstall Grub4dos, it will work fine, but I really need the systems to be bootable directly after a full clone (for production purposes).
In the meantime, I have booted to a Linux LiveCD and ran bootinfoscript to help diagnose why this is happening.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012]
============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================
=> Grub4Dos is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
=> Grub4Dos is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb.
sda1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows 7
Boot files: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe
sda2: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: Windows 7: FAT32
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /menu.lst /grldr /grldr /grldr.mbr
sda3: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista/7: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: Unknown
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /menu.lst /grldr /grldr /grldr.mbr
============================ Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda _____________________________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2,048 41,945,087 41,943,040 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
/dev/sda2 41,945,088 83,888,127 41,943,040 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda3 83,888,128 3,907,024,895 3,823,136,768 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
Drive: sdb _____________________________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sdb: 4004 MB, 4004511744 bytes
116 heads, 51 sectors/track, 1322 cylinders, total 7821312 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sdb1 32 7,821,311 7,821,280 b W95 FAT32
"blkid" output: ________________________________________________________________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/loop0 squashfs
/dev/sda1 1458066658064748 ntfs
/dev/sda2 504E-9DA3 vfat RECOVERY
/dev/sda3 BE4067264066E51D ntfs Video
/dev/sdb1 0225-4C3B vfat BETA
================================ Mount points: =================================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/loop0 /rofs squashfs (ro,noatime)
/dev/sdb1 /media/BETA vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=999,gid=999,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush)
/dev/sr0 /cdrom iso9660 (ro,noatime)
================================ sda2/menu.lst: ================================
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
clear
debug off
hotkey
default 0
timeout 3
hidemenu
graphicsmode -1 640 480 100:1000 24:32 > nul
#splashimage (hd0,1)/splash.xpm.gz > nul
#color black/black
# hied grub4dos version info
# write (md)0x220+1 !BAT\necho -n -P:0000 $[0133] \0
# initscript (md)0x220+1
# set 0 size border
/menusetting.gz 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
title DRSHD
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
boot
title ^F12 Press F12 to restore
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz vga=0 iflkmap=us ktl=qwerty initrd=initrmfs.gz edd=off
initrd /initrmfs.gz--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
========================== sda2/grldr embedded menu: ===========================
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
pxe detect
configfile
default 0
timeout 1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
=================== sda2: Location of files loaded by Grub: ====================
GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
?? = ?? menu.lst 1
?? = ?? vmlinuz 1
================================ sdb1/menu.lst: ================================
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
clear
debug off
hotkey
default 0
timeout 10
hidemenu
graphicsmode -1 640 480 100:1000 24:32 > nul
#splashimage (hd0,1)/splash.xpm.gz > nul
#color black/black
# hied grub4dos version info
# write (md)0x220+1 !BAT\necho -n -P:0000 $[0133] \0
# initscript (md)0x220+1
# set 0 size border
/menusetting.gz 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
title DRSHD
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
map --hook
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
boot
title ^F12 Press F12 to restore
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
map --hook
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz vga=0 iflkmap=us ktl=qwerty initrd=initrmfs.gz edd=off
initrd /initrmfs.gz--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
========================== sdb1/grldr embedded menu: ===========================
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
pxe detect
configfile
default 0
timeout 1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
=================== sdb1: Location of files loaded by Grub: ====================
GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
?? = ?? menu.lst 1
?? = ?? vmlinuz 1
======================== Unknown MBRs/Boot Sectors/etc: ========================
Unknown BootLoader on sdb1
00000000 eb 58 90 4d 53 44 4f 53 35 2e 30 00 02 20 18 11 |.X.MSDOS5.0.. ..|
00000010 02 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00 3f 00 ff 00 20 00 00 00 |........?... ...|
00000020 e0 57 77 00 74 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 |.Ww.t...........|
00000030 01 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000040 80 01 29 3b 4c 25 02 4e 4f 20 4e 41 4d 45 20 20 |..);L%.NO NAME |
00000050 20 20 46 41 54 33 32 20 20 20 33 c9 8e d1 bc f4 | FAT32 3.....|
00000060 7b 8e c1 8e d9 bd 00 7c 88 56 40 88 4e 02 8a 56 |{......|.V@.N..V|
00000070 40 b4 41 bb aa 55 cd 13 72 10 81 fb 55 aa 75 0a |@.A..U..r...U.u.|
00000080 f6 c1 01 74 05 fe 46 02 eb 2d 8a 56 40 b4 08 cd |...t..F..-.V@...|
00000090 13 73 05 b9 ff ff 8a f1 66 0f b6 c6 40 66 0f b6 |.s......f...@f..|
000000a0 d1 80 e2 3f f7 e2 86 cd c0 ed 06 41 66 0f b7 c9 |...?.......Af...|
000000b0 66 f7 e1 66 89 46 f8 83 7e 16 00 75 39 83 7e 2a |f..f.F..~..u9.~*|
000000c0 00 77 33 66 8b 46 1c 66 83 c0 0c bb 00 80 b9 01 |.w3f.F.f........|
000000d0 00 e8 2c 00 e9 a8 03 a1 f8 7d 80 c4 7c 8b f0 ac |..,......}..|...|
000000e0 84 c0 74 17 3c ff 74 09 b4 0e bb 07 00 cd 10 eb |..t.<.t.........|
000000f0 ee a1 fa 7d eb e4 a1 7d 80 eb df 98 cd 16 cd 19 |...}...}........|
00000100 66 60 80 7e 02 00 0f 84 20 00 66 6a 00 66 50 06 |f`.~.... .fj.fP.|
00000110 53 66 68 10 00 01 00 b4 42 8a 56 40 8b f4 cd 13 |Sfh.....B.V@....|
00000120 66 58 66 58 66 58 66 58 eb 33 66 3b 46 f8 72 03 |fXfXfXfX.3f;F.r.|
00000130 f9 eb 2a 66 33 d2 66 0f b7 4e 18 66 f7 f1 fe c2 |..*f3.f..N.f....|
00000140 8a ca 66 8b d0 66 c1 ea 10 f7 76 1a 86 d6 8a 56 |..f..f....v....V|
00000150 40 8a e8 c0 e4 06 0a cc b8 01 02 cd 13 66 61 0f |@............fa.|
00000160 82 74 ff 81 c3 00 02 66 40 49 75 94 c3 42 4f 4f |.t.....f@Iu..BOO|
00000170 54 4d 47 52 20 20 20 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |TMGR ........|
00000180 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
*
000001a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0d 0a 44 69 |..............Di|
000001b0 73 6b 20 65 72 72 6f 72 ff 0d 0a 50 72 65 73 73 |sk error...Press|
000001c0 20 61 6e 79 20 6b 65 79 20 74 6f 20 72 65 73 74 | any key to rest|
000001d0 61 72 74 0d 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |art.............|
000001e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ac 01 b9 01 00 00 55 aa |..............U.|
00000200
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