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Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 18:03 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: |
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>>Hello everybody, |
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>>I ran dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda bs=10240 to copy the |
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>>contents of one drive to another as suggested on 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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man grub |
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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 partitions and use rsync. |
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> Then you know every file will be copied correctly, 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 dump/restore, or cp -a old new. |
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all of the above options are preferred over dd |
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Good luck, |
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Ray |
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