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> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Ian C. Blenke
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 12:43 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] restoring a system from disk images
>
> 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.
I tried to do this using grub, but then when it booted, I got a little
smiley face character at the bottom of the screen so that wasn't much help
either :-)
I'll give your suggestions a try. Thanks.
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