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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 19:16:07 -0400
From: Ben Blount <kryptic0329@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question
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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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