> > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 06:36:56PM -0400, Solarisexpert.com wrote: > > I have 2 SCSI hard drives, different geometries (1Gb vs. 9GB ; > dd will not > > work). > > > > How do I clone them (tar may be ok ?) so that my new disk > becomes bootable > > (meaning, what is the Linux equivalent of the solaris > 'installboot'?) and > > all the data is preserved ? > > Boot a rescue disk, mount both disks like in /target and /target2, then > do[1]: > > cp -a /target/. /target2/. > > When that's done, do: > > chroot /target2 /sbin/silo -f > > That should do it for you. > > > Ben >
Well, moved more by laziness more than anything else, I partially took the advice here and I made a live copy of the disk with tar instead. I created a tarball on the new drive I had mounted under /mnt using a simple 'tar cvf /mnt/root.tar /' . Later on I changed directory and issued a 'tar xvf ./root.tar'. That could have probably been accomplished with a cleaner approach, using something like tar -cvO / | tar xv -C /mnt The version of tar I use under Solaris has a different sintax and I was not comfortable taking chances on my only good disk with my finally fully functional kernel and 4 days of work on getting the socal driver to work... I am pretty sure it will do the job. I almost forgot, make sure you use the --exclude flag on tar to keep at least /proc/kcore out of the tarball. If you forget, you will be reading through all of your physical memory. (I am not sure if you cn leave out all of /proc. I think this should be built dynamically every time the kernel initializes, but I am not sure if the kernel expects to find at least the mount points for the virtual filesystems... Any hints here ?) I stil needed the bootblock to contain the boot code. The line from Ben's recommendation above worked nicely for that purpose: chroot /target2 /sbin/silo -f which in my case was chroot /mnt /sbin/silo -f Regards Raoul Volpe Phone (877) 44 SOL EX (Toll Free) Phone +001 407 323 1668 (outside US) Fax +001 586 816 7086 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.solarisexpert.com <http://www.solarisexpert.com/>
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