I used 'dd' to backup the MBR of my primary hard disk thus: dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/disk/sda.boot.mbr bs=512 count=1
Upon restore I should have received: /dev/sda1 * 1 996 8000338+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda2 997 14593 109217902+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 997 1002 48163+ 83 Linux (/boot) /dev/sda6 1003 3492 20000893+ 83 Linux (/) /dev/sda7 3493 14593 89168751 83 Linux (/home) Instead the dd restore omitted the swap area. Is this normal? It seems to me that one cannot replicate a hard disk Linux installation without an exact replication of the original disk geography. Is this correct? I backed up and restored on an unmounted device from the Ubuntu Live DVD. Could that have caused the problem? I now perform the same sequence on a mounted device from single-user mode (init 1). Should that make a difference? Thanks Word Wizard _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
