On 9/28/05, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: * > > sfdisk -d /dev/hdf > /var/scratch/hde.out > > WARNING Will Robinson! > > The output from sfdisk is not always usable as input > to sfdisk, even on the same disc, let alone another! > > I suggest you look carefully at the file /var/scratch/hde.out > and verify that it looks correct and usable as input to sfdisk. > If it contains warnings, then sfdisk will likely not process > it properly as input.
hmm, no errors there. here's the contents: # partition table of /dev/hde unit: sectors /dev/hde1 : start= 63, size= 3871602, Id=83, bootable /dev/hde2 : start= 3871665, size= 240975, Id= 5 /dev/hde3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 /dev/hde4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 /dev/hde5 : start= 3871728, size= 240912, Id=82 > > > ####################### > > # restore to new disk > > ###################### > > # write mbr > > dd if=/var/scratch/$MBR of=/dev/hdf bs=446 count=1 > > # partition drive > > cat /var/scratch/hde.out | sfdisk --force -f /dev/hdf > > Umm, these look like they're being done in the wrong order > to me. I think you *do* need something to fiddle the geometry on > the installed partitions, and sfdisk should do that. Then you > also need code there. I think you may be having a problem with > needing to install a PT along with boot code. A way to do that > is to use sfdisk to install the PT, but use GRUB to install itself. You say this later, but somthing that's bothered me about this is that I don't see how to instlal grub on /dev/hde and then point it to the proper menu.lst. (right now, on my main workstation, / is on /dev/hda2. on these disks I'm formatting, / should be on the first partition. How do I tell grub-install to look on /dev/hda2 for the root filesystem & the menu.lst file?) This is probably a trivial problem, but I guess I don't understand the docs very well. anyway, thanks, I guess if someone can clarify the GRUB thing to me I wil ltry it that way! matt
