To follow up on my email from last week... > I successfully built an LFS system (SVN-20050920) awhile back > and now I'm trying to clone it to another drive (using Ghost 8.0) but > I keep getting "GRUB GRUB GRUB" across the screen. I can fix > this by re-installing grub on that disk, but I would like to avoid > this extra step as this is going to be done many times -- we sell a > Linux-based product.
> What I don't understand is Ghost 8.0 does support grub. In fact, > it will successfully clone Fedora Core 4 which also uses grub. > Why would it successfully clone Fedora with grub but not LFS > with grub? Incidentally, I also tried with lilo, and that has a > problem as well. I get "L99 99 99" across the screen. I ended up using Acronis True Image Home 9.0 and it was able to clone my LFS drive perfectly. No more grub errors! Another cool feature of the software is the creation of a Rescue CD. I used their software to create a bootable CD and then made an image of my LFS system and burned that to the CD and now I just boot up a system with a CD-ROM drive, their software loads, and I clone the image to disk. Since I also did quite a bit of research on free alternatives to Ghost before coming across True Image, I'll post my links here in case someone finds them useful: partimage http://www.partimage.org/ g4u http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ g4l http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/ mkCDrec http://mkcdrec.ota.be/ Mondo Rescue http://www.mondorescue.com/ SystemRescueCD http://www.sysresccd.org/ SLIM http://slim.cs.hku.hk/ OS Cloning http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
