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From: Paul Rogers <paulgrog...@fastmail.fm>
To: lfs-support-requ...@lists.linuxfromscratch.org
Subject: Re: Another Question on Dual Boot
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 21:54:33 -0700
> I have built an LFS system that I now wish to migrate to my main box.
> To do this, I plugged in a USB drive, mounted it to /root/tmp , and
> ran the command: dd if=/dev/sda1 bs=64K | gzip -c > tmp/drive.gz
That step is problematic. You're transplanting the whole partition.
That's not the thing to do. Partitions have a first "track" disk
parameter block, i.e. MBR, just as drives do. It's specific to the disk
geometry. Yes, they can contain boot code--how does chain loading work,
eh? ;-) Secondly, the partiton table of the new drive won't have the
soon to be second partition defined--and even if you predefine it, the
transplanted partition won't "look right".
What you need to do is boot into single user mode, then tar it to the
USB using the -l parameter so it doesn't take other filesystems, e.g.
/proc /sys /run, et al. Then restore them on a partition you defined
and formatted using your LiveCD in the main box.
> On my main box, I will fire up a live cd, plug in my USB drive and
> restore with this command gunzip -c tmp/drive.gz | dd of=/dev/sda2
> bs=64K The reason it won't be sda1 is because windows is on there.
No problem at all.
> After doing that, I will chroot into the newly restored system and run
> grub-install /dev/sda
In my experience, I never quite get the parameters right to make that
work properly, and it turns into a big time waster. Since my systems
are old enough to still have floppy drives, I just type in a basic boot
command to a GRUB rescue floppy, single, then run grub-install. Get
GRUB on your new box to make you a rescue USB thumbdrive. (Something I
haven't had to explore yet.)
> And of course, I'll update /etc/fstab /etc/hosts /etc/hostname and so
> on to conform to the new system.
You still didn't touch the partition table.
> My question is on the grub.cfg syntax so that I can boot windows. I
> guessed it will probably look something like this: menuentry "Windows
> 7" { insmod chain insmod ntfs set root=(hd0,msdos1) chainloader +1 }
> Will that work, or will I need something more complex?
Simpler. Use grub-mkconfig, and then edit it HEAVILY into some kind
of sanity.
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