Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
> Javier Vasquez:
>> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Why do you only copy 446 Bytes back?
>>
>> That's what I read is necessary, since the last 64+2 bytes of the 1st
>> 512 bytes correspond to the partition table, which shouldn't be
>> copied over I believe. An example of such warning can be found:
>>
>> http://www.sysdesign.ca/guides/partitions.html
>> http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/24885-how-copy-mbr-old-harddrive-new-harddrive.html
>>
>> Well, I'm not sure anymore then...
>
> Me neither. :) Without looking into the articles, I trust them more to
> be correct about this than I trust myself on this matter. However, it
> should still be an option to copy the MBR first and partition the drive
> afterwards. But of course that leaves the question why it didn't work on
> your first try.
>
> Did you edit grub's menu list to reflect your partition changes?
No need. The structure of the new HD is the same as the structure of
the old one (sda5 for swap, sda6 for boot and sda7 for root). I
didn't want to change this structure to make things easier, :)... And
once the HD's are swapped, then sda5 becomes hda5, and so on...
> J.
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Javier
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