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--- Raymond Lillard <rlillard@×××××.net> wrote: |
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> Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 18:03 -0800, maxim wexler |
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> wrote: |
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> >>Hello everybody, |
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> >> |
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> >>I ran dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda bs=10240 to copy |
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> the |
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> >>contents of one drive to another as suggested on |
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> this |
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> >>list. And updated fstab and grub.conf. Now the PC |
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> >>boots into a kernel panic. |
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> bad idea. |
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> I'm guessing that you need to rewrite the boot block |
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> with the grub shell. |
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> |
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> man grub |
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> > |
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> > does dd use any sort of error checking? |
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> No. |
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> >>Any suggestions? |
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> Yes. |
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> > they way I do it every time, is create the |
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> partitions and use rsync. |
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> > Then you know every file will be copied correctly, |
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> and you can pick up |
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> > at some later stage between reboots. |
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> Do the above with rsync, or tar, or cpio, or |
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> dump/restore, or cp -a old new. |
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> all of the above options are preferred over dd |
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Tried rsync -a and cp -a. No good. Millions of |
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badblocks remain. But it's OK, Western Digital is |
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shipping another gratis :) |
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