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MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run |
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grub-install just to be sure. |
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You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use |
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cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/ |
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(putting in the appriopriate mount locations of course) |
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Ben Blount |
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On 9/1/05, John Jolet <john@×××××.net> wrote: |
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> On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: |
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> > > My question :- |
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> > > I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route? |
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> > If both drives are the same size |
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> > dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=4096 |
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> will that get the mbr, or does he still need to do the grub-install step? |
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> John Jolet |
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