It turns out that the reason I never thought of using mkfs to build a working boot sector is that mkfs doesn't do that. Grub, however, does but I am still a bit confused as to how to get it working. I mounted the new drive on /mnt #mount /dev/sdf1 /mnt It's all there. #chroot /mnt / is now the top of that directory. #grub-install /dev/sda /dev/sda isthere but grub reports it can't find that device and "is /dev mounted?" This is one of those time you wish siri was part of Linux and you could yell at her! Seriously, how do I safely do this so that I make this disk think it is /dev/sda which will be what it is when it really boots?
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