From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23B091381F3 for ; Mon, 6 May 2013 15:19:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4B8BE08C4; Mon, 6 May 2013 15:19:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vc0-f176.google.com (mail-vc0-f176.google.com [209.85.220.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 81A8DE0891 for ; Mon, 6 May 2013 15:19:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f176.google.com with SMTP id ib11so3112805vcb.21 for ; Mon, 06 May 2013 08:19:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=GAiwylvZzDhuYDhN2gKtFK+IwznGJAETfy4uO/PQsb4=; b=Jcp52rySNbbmpTj1wm91+Bg+n4qiWmA0C9INHwl2xJV5YsSxQ4nDqs5J7MqccUn/gU T/NIfW24nuZB4Gho4Si/GHUrJZMsLLiDwchPL2YZv0mU8hGUFiZ17GfkMcr/I1MRaY3s xAVjgrUA1brT6KH74xH+NrOVvCTkzukkZWYWzrIpMHvNx7kPiJUMFWK9oXvs8QAaoujD NfUyEryrDxLIO6MFjytgUu0xhx/PhzmtKRYecwhY1bR5HWTC5BwWUF+Xxf3JTLvrCFPe 2YZVfsK2NNFQN0kVovPLupwDIwr90zCWBXjH1j1kMmfnQr5ZJmXbUw4Nb7jJTd93SQ1r 4Z7w== X-Received: by 10.59.9.39 with SMTP id dp7mr6960228ved.36.1367853555656; Mon, 06 May 2013 08:19:15 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.58.48.167 with HTTP; Mon, 6 May 2013 08:18:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20130505161640.GB30557@BIFROST.fritz.box> From: Paul Hartman Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 10:18:55 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5-rwpv7FwD4lwYUPs19sU6Dd1UU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 007c2199-93a6-492b-84a5-76321548b040 X-Archives-Hash: 9efdffcaf3c0e1679208f66fd1c560d8 On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Randolph Maa=DFen w= rote: > I'm so damn lucky > > I dd'ed the SSD onto an external drive and worked at first on the image w= ith > qemu. A simple recreation of the partition brought the system back to liv= e > on the image. I tried the same on the real machine and Gentoo works again= . Wow, congratulations. In the old days when I first started using Linux, I used to keep a backup of my boot sector and partition table on a floppy disk. Maybe I should consider this practice again as part of my backup routine. :)