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New Primary HDD: A full Ubuntu backup & restoration experience (Draft)

Steps: Use “SystemRescueCD” “fsarchiver savefs” “fsarchiver restfs” mount /dev/sda1 /mnt mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot  #skip this if don’t have a separate /boot partition grub2-install –root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda Operation Stats: Original Disk Space used on the HDD to backup: 45 GB Size of … Continue reading

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How to edit the Grub2 bootloader entries (used for some new linux distros, e.g. Ubuntu Karmic)

I used to edit the “/boot/grub/menu.lst”, that’s not the case in grub2: Firstly, you should edit the “/etc/default/grub” Next, run the “update-grub” command, that’s it 🙂

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