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#1 theonlylawislove

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Posted 21 March 2014 - 06:46 PM

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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#2 theonlylawislove

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Posted 21 March 2014 - 07:06 PM

Ignore my 4gb thumbdrive that was included into the report. I had to use it to boot the Windows 7 partition on the larger drive (because MBR is broken).



#3 steve6375

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Posted 21 March 2014 - 07:26 PM

grub4dos installs to the MBR and about 60 sectors after the MBR. Preserving just the MBr is not enough. Try backing up the first 63 sectors instead.







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