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 1EAzI3-0005lv-9n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 00:20:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j820ErKT012337; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 00:14:53 GMT Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.206]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8203Ge6012868 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 00:03:16 GMT Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id g2so54551nfe for ; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:05:48 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=V12Xww6L1FLhJqiKs/xPMJom8WqN714e2/drOTAP9SC2R1O770p6xPxz8jV1kMqENuEhCa+CSLwYLYT3JP3RGYfVOqiox4ekspoeGRRakc5ww/IBLgYjavtuRW+NIiPtEzXsE/puVc9cE9wTd5jFPc8plEgxw3bUNjcV4WxQ9PE= Received: by 10.48.236.2 with SMTP id j2mr64016nfh; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:05:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.144.9 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:05:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 00:05:48 +0000 From: Stuart Howard To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Copying" between hard drives potential newbie question In-Reply-To: <20050902003522.304b51bc@hactar.digimed.co.uk> 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> <20050902003522.304b51bc@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j8203Ge6012868 X-Archives-Salt: 0e02863a-9483-4218-b7ff-b1195356e0b0 X-Archives-Hash: 494f1898c1cce4d5c43c9ccb495ee315 Hi people MANY thanks people for the advice, after some painful time I have got my system back or at least everything seems fine so far [typing from opera in X]. As a record for myself and or others who may ever need this I performed the following steps 1. Beat head on wall for not thinking to buy a UPS. 2. "broken " drive would allow access to data but bios fail reported at attempt to boot 3. installed new drive as master old as slave 4. booted via liveCD 5. Created new partitions and filesystems similar to old 6. mounted new and old partitions 7. cp -prf /old /new 8. chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash 9. grub-install /dev/hda 10. reboot 11. cheer Had a few recommendations for rsync -a and a few concerns that cp would not cp .files or maintain sufficient permissios etc but I think that cp -prf has managed to acheive the same. thanks again stu On 9/1/05, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:06:38 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > > > > 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? > > It gets *everything* > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > OPERATOR ERROR: Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah! > > > -- "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't" --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list