On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:16, Ben Blount wrote: > MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run > grub-install just to be sure. > > You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use > cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/ I'd do a cp -pR if I did that, to maintain permissions. or even use rsync, it'll go MUCH quicker.
> (putting in the appriopriate mount locations of course) > > Ben Blount > > On 9/1/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: > > > > My question :- > > > > > > > > I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested > > > > route? > > > > > > If both drives are the same size > > > > > > 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? > > -- > > John Jolet > > Your On-Demand IT Department > > 512-762-0729 > > www.jolet.net > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > > [email protected] mailing list -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] mailing list
