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Re: [bug #19070] Grub/LVM boot problem
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JKoshi |
Subject: |
Re: [bug #19070] Grub/LVM boot problem |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:12:57 -0800 (PST) |
Adrian,
Thanks for your feedback.
I'm considering using dd for this purpose if this issue is not resolved.
>From what I know, Acronis claims that you can clone a system like
min, just the way I did, and it should work. Their help-desk wasn't
very good at addressing the GRUB issue, though.
regards,
John
adrian15 wrote:
>
> JKoshi escribió:
>> I wish to clone this disk, so I don't lose hours of setup/installs
>> on both OS's, and my work, in case of a crash. I did the following:
>>
>> 1) Installed Acronis 10 under Windows, and cloned the entire disk
>> to a 120G USB disk.
>> 2) Restored from that clone onto a new 80G disk of the same geometry,
>> and replaced the existing disk with the newly cloned one.
>
> Try to clone it with dd command from a knoppix live cd.
>
> Something as:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/media/hdb1/giga80.img
>
> dd if=/media/hdb1/giga80.img of=/dev/hda
>
>
> This implies that in hda (primary master) you have the source disk and
> in the second line in hda you have the destination disk.
>
> hdb is the temporal disk which should be fat32 and mounted already,...
>
> But Gnu is so good that you do not need any temporal disk for doing this.
>
> If hda is source disk and hdb is destination disk you can do your
> cloning this way:
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
>
> About your message... :) ... It seems that Acronis has done something
> bad on the cloning because grub was not able to mount the partition.
>
> adrian15
>
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