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as you saw in the previous article, the manual step would be:

to fix this, boot to a rescue CD (installation media) and then:

Launch GRUB by typing the following

grub

grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

Reboot and be happy now :)

However, how can I automate this?

first, mount the disk image using vmware-mount utility from our mounted NAS filesystem...

vmware-mount -f /vmfs/volumes/nas-staging/ha002/ha002.vmdk /mnt/ha002/flat

then trick GRUB into thinking we have a block device

echo “(hd1) /mnt/ha002/flat" >/tmp/device.map 

now run GRUB against this fake block device

grub --batch --device-map=/tmp/device.map 

and fix grub like you did before

grub> root (hd1,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

umount the disk and your done!

vmware-mount -x

Now to build the vCO workflow...