Re: Problems when "cloning" an hard-disk
Whoops!
Sorry about that-
you will not get the proper hard drive geometry
unless both drives are the same type-
disregard my previous post!
Tad
Tad Bilby wrote:
> Sabino-
> try dd if=/dev/sda3 of=/dev/sdb3 bs=8000k
>
> or better yet:
> # man dd
> and use your original disk as the "if" infile and the
> "to be cloned disk" as the "of" outfile.
>
> You will want to select the "whole disk" partition or slice
> for the copy.
>
> Tad
>
> Sabino Maggi wrote:
>
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I have a Sparc IPX with with two hard-disks, an external (slow!) 2 GB hd
> > for the OS (Debian GNU/Linux potato) and an internal hd mounted as
> > /home.
> > I want to "clone" my existing system on a new disk. What I have done is:
> >
> > 1. I have substituted the internal disk with the new one;
> > 2. I have booted the present system, partitioning and formatting the new
> > hd (/dev/sdb).
> > I have not forgot to have a "whole disk" partition (/dev/sdb3) and I
> > have created 3 other partitions on this disk for /, /home and swap.
> > 3. Then I have mounted /dev/sdb1 as /mnt/new-disk/, copying the old fs
> > on the new disk:
> > 'cp -ax / /mnt/new-disk'. I have also checked everything and the copy
> > seems fine.
> > 4. I have finally edited /mnt/new-disk/etc/fstab to reflect the new
> > hard-disk partitioning scheme.
> > 5. (I have also copied the /home partition on the new system, but I
> > think this has nothing to do with what I am describing here.)
> >
> > What I have done is basically the same that I did on my pc at home
> > without any problems. The main difference is that here I have not run
> > 'silo' after changing fstab.
> >
> > However, when I try to boot off the new hd (physically removing also the
> > connection to the external disk), I get this error message:
> > "Boot device: /sbus/esp@0,800000/sd@1,0 File and args:
> > The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
> > Type b (boot)..."
> >
> > It goes without saying that probe-scsi correctly recognizes the hd and
> > that the scsi id is right. I have also tried to enable/disable bus
> > termination on the hd with no result.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Sabino
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