Bill Glidden wrote
> On one machine this worked like a champ. On the second machine, all
> that happens when I boot is that I get the word “GRUB” on the screen
> and it hangs.
>
> Could I possibly have a bad disk? Anything wrong with the method I used?
>
Even in this day and age, geometry differences will kill you.
One (ugly) thing you can do is dump the geometry and re-introduce it
when applying the partitioning elsewhere:
machine1# sfdisk -d /dev/sda > partition.dump
machine1# sfdisk -g /dev/sda
/dev/sda: 19457 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
machine1# rsync -aq partition.dump machine2:/root/
machine1# ssh machine2
machine2# sfdisk -f -C19457 -H255 -S63 /dev/sda < partition.dump
Ugly? Yes. Does it work? More often than it probably should.
The alternative, of course, is to re-install your grub MBR after
transferring to the new drive.
This trick is mostly useful when the BIOS reports a different geometry
between two drives that you _know_ have the same capacity, particularly
in a raid1 pair.
Oh LBA, how I wish you would have replaced this madness...
- Ian
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