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 1EAyQL-0001fi-Nm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 23:24:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j81NKpgA007868; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 23:20:51 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.204]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j81NDc3J032720 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 23:13:39 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id h31so264869wxd for ; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 16:16:07 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CfMCFYw1MXF17kDBPkwkiZaMvKdXyXpk/Xybdq9Wp8ygc4Zb771SuWKgSjSBi7VMYq5EEYMdxcorZ3qFIBQRI68/1uua/cMksK5rCsvvC8k1u97d3dKtnIZzr4PqAhLdClG90ajaWP7hk1mhln18CK5MY+aZf7D6PPOSg9ObD2E= Received: by 10.70.92.8 with SMTP id p8mr57420wxb; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 16:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.105.4 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 16:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 19:16:07 -0400 From: Ben Blount To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question In-Reply-To: <200509011806.38610.john@jolet.net> 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-Disposition: inline References: <20050902000421.78407d4b@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <200509011806.38610.john@jolet.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j81NDc3J032720 X-Archives-Salt: 61cc66ff-c2f4-4f7d-9c01-f7e80d28177f X-Archives-Hash: cb1ed725dda1e648b5debdf96e297580 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 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 > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list