Thanks, Am I correct that since I'll put a second disk in temporarily, as you suggested the master on the secondary controller (I'm using IDE not SCSI) /dev/hdc, install the grub loader. I'm guessing (correctly?) that the grub-install command is not sensitive to where the disk's final resting place will be (in my case /dev/hda) Also the label command just lables the partition witht he name but not the disk location as well. Jeff On Tue, June 13, 2006 10:48 am, Jeff Cody wrote: > 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 > > > > >
