From: John Jolet <john@jolet.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:32:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509011832.07385.john@jolet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <af86c60b05090116165fd89394@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:16, Ben Blount wrote:
> MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run
> grub-install just to be sure.
>
> You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use
> cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/
I'd do a cp -pR if I did that, to maintain permissions. or even use rsync,
it'll go MUCH quicker.
> (putting in the appriopriate mount locations of course)
>
> Ben Blount
>
> On 9/1/05, John Jolet <john@jolet.net> 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?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-01 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-01 21:36 [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question Stuart Howard
2005-09-01 21:50 ` John Jolet
2005-09-01 23:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-01 23:06 ` John Jolet
2005-09-01 23:16 ` Ben Blount
2005-09-01 23:32 ` John Jolet [this message]
2005-09-01 23:33 ` Holly Bostick
2005-09-02 10:09 ` Harald Arnesen
2005-09-01 23:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-02 0:05 ` Stuart Howard
2005-09-02 1:31 ` Bob Sanders
2005-09-07 1:08 ` waltdnes
2005-09-07 15:49 ` Matthias Bethke
2005-09-10 18:13 ` [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question ----- > Disk image post Stuart Howard
2005-09-12 14:53 ` Michael Kintzios
2005-09-12 16:26 ` Michael W. Holdeman
2005-09-02 6:23 ` [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question Frank Schafer
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