Re: hd cloning

2006-03-30 Thread Giampaolo Bellini
>How is this related to the development of GRUB 2? > >I think such questions belong on bug-grub. This list is about the >development of GRUB 2. You are using GRUB Legacy. > >-- >Marco you are right... sorry for the mistake Giampaolo ___ Grub-de

Re: hd cloning

2006-03-29 Thread Marco Gerards
Giampaolo Bellini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > is it possible to clone an entire HD to another one (with exactly the > same space/sectors/heads etc) without reinstalling grub ? How is this related to the development of GRUB 2? I think such questions belong on bug-grub. This list is about

Re: hd cloning

2006-03-29 Thread Carl Karsten
partition (like hda1), and how it does not work. The text that it writes on screen is useful to know if some part of grub was loaded, or your problem is 'generic' (i.e. any boot loader will fail this way...). Anyway, I'm responding to this, because I don't know where is the right place for this q

Re: hd cloning

2006-03-29 Thread Tomáš Ebenlendr
On i386 are several things that may lead to fail... First you should use same computer (only replace HD), if this does not work (with unchanged bios setup), then it cannot work on other computer. (I mention this, because you don't write that you use it on one computer.) Second, bios must access H

hd cloning

2006-03-29 Thread Giampaolo Bellini
Hello... is it possible to clone an entire HD to another one (with exactly the same space/sectors/heads etc) without reinstalling grub ? I'm doing: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb dd if=/dev/hda of=hda.mbr bs=512 count=1 sfdisk -d /dev/hda > hda.sf to clone the HD, save