The HOWTO insists that any other OS partitions (ie. windows) must be handled by their own OS. Would dd successfully copy an unmounted windows partition to a new hd?
Brian. >From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Much thanks to nDiScReEt, Bascule, Steve Browne, Brian Parish, Larry Sword, >and Pross(who got in at the last moment). > >We got it fixed. > >The problem was that I followed the howto at >http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html to upgrade my >HD. > >Following directions, I used a _temporary_ lilo config for the initial >booting of the new HD. In the config, the line _append="hdb=ide-scsi"_ was >omitted. Thus, I had not re-corrected my lilo config. nDiScReEt's post >below opened my eyes. The second I seen it, I knew what it was. I'm now >kicking myself (HARD). > > >Thanks to all >Dave _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
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