By root partition I mean the whole partition from sector 1, which includes MBR.
'sudo dd if=/dev/sdxy ibs=4096 conv=noerror | gzip -9 > /img/filename.img.gz' is supposed to copy MBR as well, unless I made a mistake in my command? That is possible, I will re-verify, Phil. Listen, I will retry that above command and see what it does, unless you tell me right away it's wrong. Hey wait... you know what? I think I did not use the above command yet in my tests, I did it on the same disk, backup and restore on the same disk, but I used g4l to restore to the OTHER disk, the cloned one. And in g4l I am cloning sdb1 to sda1, not sdb to sda so it "probably" does not copy the MBR ( have to check that assumption). Now you mention about this, it makes me think... since I do restores on the cleanly installed Kubuntu, grub2 is already there, therefore if I don't copy and restore the MBR, it doesn't change anything cuz the MBR already has grub2 in it. That would make sense. I think that might be the problem, I have to check a few things and do a couple more tests. I'll be back, tnx for pointing this out. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/923070 Title: Cloning GRUB2/GRUB-legacy makes clone not bootable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/923070/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
