I've got an Ubuntu desktop machine on which I'm running VMware workstation, with some Ubuntu 910 VMs. I'm using dump to back them up and am going through the exercise of attempting to do a bare metal recovery.

I created a new VM with an identically sized virtual drive. I booted the new VM off the rescue image. I then partitioned the virtual drive the same as the original VM, made a file system on the boot partition. I used apt-get to install the dump package and then used restore to reload all of the files from the original VM. So far so good.

But now I need to fix the boot loader or something. This is the part where I am unclear and I'm having a heck of a time finding information on-line as to what to do next.

Back in my Solaris daze, I'd boot off the install CD, make a file system, restore the files from tape, and then install a boot block. I figured that Ubuntu would work with a similar process.

Anyone know what to do?

Thanks!

Russ