For all of you kind souls who participated in this extravaganza of cloning my Windows boot sector, I just want to report that I finally achieved success. All of the solutions were wise and wonderful, but in the end it turned out to be something else.
When I partitioned the new disk, I forgot to make it 'active' (MS fdisk) or 'bootable' (linux fdisk). Hell fire and damnation. It wasn't till I dir 'fdisk /mbr' and reformatted the whole partition with the 'format /s' and it still wouldn't boot that I realized something was amiss. Note to future self: How to clone a windoze partition 1) make a vfat partition and MAKE IT BOOTABLE 2) make an fstab entry 3) cd /; mkdir win; cp -a /old/win . Thanks for all the help along the way... John Hunter _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
