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From: Ben Blount <kryptic0329@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 19:16:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <af86c60b05090116165fd89394@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509011806.38610.john@jolet.net>

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/
(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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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-01 23:24 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 [this message]
2005-09-01 23:32       ` John Jolet
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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