--- Raymond Lillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 18:03 -0800, maxim wexler
> wrote:
> >
> >>Hello everybody,
> >>
> >>I ran dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda bs=10240 to copy
> the
> >>contents of one drive to another as suggested on
> this
> >>list. And updated fstab and grub.conf. Now the PC
> >>boots into a kernel panic.
>
> bad idea.
>
> I'm guessing that you need to rewrite the boot block
> with the grub shell.
>
> man grub
>
> >
> >
> > does dd use any sort of error checking?
>
> No.
>
> >
> >>Any suggestions?
>
> Yes.
>
> > they way I do it every time, is create the
> partitions and use rsync.
> > Then you know every file will be copied correctly,
> and you can pick up
> > at some later stage between reboots.
>
> Do the above with rsync, or tar, or cpio, or
> dump/restore, or cp -a old new.
>
> all of the above options are preferred over dd
Tried rsync -a and cp -a. No good. Millions of
badblocks remain. But it's OK, Western Digital is
shipping another gratis :)
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