Adrian, Thanks for your feedback.
I'm considering using dd for this purpose if this issue is not resolved. >From what I know, Acronis claims that you can clone a system like min, just the way I did, and it should work. Their help-desk wasn't very good at addressing the GRUB issue, though. regards, John adrian15 wrote: > > JKoshi escribió: >> I wish to clone this disk, so I don't lose hours of setup/installs >> on both OS's, and my work, in case of a crash. I did the following: >> >> 1) Installed Acronis 10 under Windows, and cloned the entire disk >> to a 120G USB disk. >> 2) Restored from that clone onto a new 80G disk of the same geometry, >> and replaced the existing disk with the newly cloned one. > > Try to clone it with dd command from a knoppix live cd. > > Something as: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/media/hdb1/giga80.img > > dd if=/media/hdb1/giga80.img of=/dev/hda > > > This implies that in hda (primary master) you have the source disk and > in the second line in hda you have the destination disk. > > hdb is the temporal disk which should be fat32 and mounted already,... > > But Gnu is so good that you do not need any temporal disk for doing this. > > If hda is source disk and hdb is destination disk you can do your > cloning this way: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb > > About your message... :) ... It seems that Acronis has done something > bad on the cloning because grub was not able to mount the partition. > > adrian15 > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Grub-LVM-boot-problem-tf3269768.html#a9104062 Sent from the Grub - Bugs mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
