Perhaps you need to change the block size during the copy: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 I think there is some issue with the boot sector and block sizes above 1K, but I don't remember where I heard this. Steve -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Don Levey Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 11:52 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Upgrade procedure/advice: boot sector On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 09:24, Jeff Vian wrote: > Don Levey wrote: > >>Maybe you should rewrite the partiton table on the new drive and then > >>copy partiton-by-partition to that drive. > >> > >> > > > >That sounds like the next step, I guess. I may take the time to > >readjust the partition sizes, at that point. None of my family actually > >does work on this machine, so having a large /home doesn't seem to make > >sense. However, I've got quite a bit on the web server (family > >pictures, and all that) as well as the entire CD collection in a media > >directory. So /var may grow a bit. Thanks for the help! > > -Don > > > > > > > One more thought. > > You did not say whether you were reconnecting the second drive (hdb) in > as the master (hda) before attempting to boot. Your copy method makes > an exact copy of the original, and it should have the mbr and everything > else the same. > > Try removing the original hda drive and putting the second drive in that > position and see if it will boot. That was exactly what I was doing - the idea was to keep the original as an (untouched) master and do the upgrade on the copy. That way, if it worked, I could use the original, and if it didn't I'd still have it to put back in place. After the dd I had only one disk connected at a time. If the dd should have copied the mbr sector, then there *must* have been a geometry problem. I think what I'll do now is connect the second drive also, manually make partitions, copy over the data from the master, install a boot loader using either grub-install or grub, and try to boot that way. THEN if that works I can upgrade. I think this has been covered before, but any suggestions for how to copy, on a partition-by-partition basis, from one drive to another? Would that be a good problem for mondo? And would that take symbolic links into account? -Don -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
