From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EB53v-0006fG-Vh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 06:30:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j826QEmu015760; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 06:26:14 GMT Received: from mail.t-systems.cz (mail.t-systems.cz [212.67.76.249]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j826MSEv016361 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 06:22:28 GMT Received: from mefisto.t-systems.cz (faust.t-systems.cz [10.246.110.12]) by mail.t-systems.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72AE9899BD for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 08:24:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from andre.t-systems.cz ([10.246.112.240]) by mefisto.t-systems.cz with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 2 Sep 2005 08:24:46 +0200 Received: andre.t-systems.cz 10.246.112.240 from 10.246.112.176 10.246.112.176 via HTTP with MS-WebStorage 6.5.6944 Received: from frankies by andre.t-systems.cz; 02 Sep 2005 08:23:58 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question From: Frank Schafer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200509011806.38610.john@jolet.net> References: <20050902000421.78407d4b@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <200509011806.38610.john@jolet.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 08:23:58 +0200 Message-Id: <1125642238.5846.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Sep 2005 06:24:46.0243 (UTC) FILETIME=[03669F30:01C5AF87] X-T-Systems_Czech-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-T-Systems_Czech-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=-5.847, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -3.30, AWL 0.05, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-MailScanner-From: frank.schafer@t-systems.cz X-Archives-Salt: f00a8739-b1e4-4560-81a6-d21380a31422 X-Archives-Hash: 6329257f8bdbca1919e611865e9be68c On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 18:06 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: > > > My question :- > > > > > > I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route? > > > > If both drives are the same size > > > > dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=4096 > will that get the mbr, or does he still need to do the grub-install step? > -- > John Jolet > Your On-Demand IT Department > 512-762-0729 > www.jolet.net > john@jolet.net It will get everything (making a copy of the physical disk surface). Due to the fact that your machine didn't boot but data is available, I'd think your old HDD isn't corrupted but the partition for /boot or the MBR itself. Try to setup grub for your old HDD too. Maybe you'll have a HDD more now. ;) Just a thought Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list