Correct on both - however you may want to look at the boot/grub/device.map on the new disk to make sure it is correct, and edit it if it is not correct. One thing, you may want to disconnect your old disk if they are both labeled "/", and if you are satisfied with how everything works go ahead and relabel your old disk to something other than "/". -Jeff On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 11:03 -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- Forward Engineering LLC http://www.forwardengineering.com
