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 1EAyeU-0001cT-N2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 23:39:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j81NYrvH006609; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 23:34:53 GMT Received: from flower.jolet.net (cpe-24-27-31-221.austin.res.rr.com [24.27.31.221]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j81NTjVb023258 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 23:29:45 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC5B518037 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:32:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: from flower.jolet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flower.jolet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 31707-02 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:32:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.1.58] (unknown [192.168.1.1]) by flower.jolet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C18D418031 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:32:15 -0500 (CDT) From: John Jolet 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <200509011806.38610.john@jolet.net> In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509011832.07385.john@jolet.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jolet.net X-Archives-Salt: 550d07f8-61a3-4df7-86e2-351cc5c3ccac X-Archives-Hash: ab6da7383d998e451a3b1486ca967fcc 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 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 > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net john@jolet.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list