On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 12:59:21PM -0800, ann kok wrote: > Hi Andrew Hi > > thank you you're welcome. please don't top post. thanks. > > could you give me more info? sure, but we need more info too... what specifically are you trying to do? It sounds like you're trying to duplicate a system onto a new disk and boot from the the new disk. is this correct? > > i try to fdisk the 1st hardrive and can't see any > bootable flag on it! yeah, Andre is right, that's okay, provided you have a bootloader (LILO or GrUB) installed to the master boot record (MBR) of the disc. > > But i did try to set the bootable flag on the 2nd > harddrive. but it also can't boot! that's most likely because you don't have a boot loader install. > > how can I install the bootloader on the 2nd harddrive? > can you give me more info? several ways to do this. start by reading the docs on whatever bootloader you want to use. you can install the bootloader from the current system to have it install itself on the new disk, but this requires some monkey-business with making sure the drives a properly named. you could also chroot into the new system and run the bootloader from inside it. what bootloader are you using on the current system? > > This is the 1st harddrive > > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9729. > There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger > than 1024, > and could in certain setups cause problems with: > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions > of LILO) > 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs > (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) do you need to deal with these issues? because if not, don't worry about it. [snipped a perfectly fine partition table] > > > --- Andrew Sackville-West > <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:54:52AM -0800, ann kok > > wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > > > I use tar to copy from one harddrive to 2nd > > harddrive > > > > this doesn't do what you think it does. it only > > copies files from one > > hard drive to another. > > > > > > then i put the harddrive to another same harddrive > > > computer. how can I make it bootable? > > > > > > > you need to edit the partition table to make the > > particular partition > > bootable *and* you need to install a boot loader in > > either the MBR or > > in the partition's BR. > >
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