After you do your dump/restore, assuming you are using grub, you can use grub-install: grub-install --root-directory=/media/disk --recheck /dev/sdc Where "/media/disk" is where the new drive is mounted, and "/dev/sdc" is the new drive (change these to reflect your system). You will probably also want to label your new partition as "/" (check /boot/grub/grub.conf and /etc/fstab to see if you need to label the partition, and what the appropriate label is): e2label /dev/sdc / Again, replace "/dev/sdc" with the appropriate drive. -Jeff On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 10:31 -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote: > I know I saw in the archives messages regarding duplicating or backing up > a complete system to another disk but I was unsuccessful. > > Here the scoop, I have a disk that is failing, of course its a single disk > system with multiple partitions (/ /boot /usr /var and /home) I want to > duplicate the whole disk onto another disk. > > Bringing the machine down to single user mode and doing a dump/restore to > a new disk is easy enough, however how to I re-install the boot loader? > > does anybody have a step by step procedure to do a system recovery from > one disk to another? right now there is no CD rom or floppy drive on the > system, I can install one if need be but would rather avoid it if > possible. > > TIA, Jeff > > > > __ ----------------------------------------------------- Forward Engineering LLC http://www.forwardengineering.com
