[TriLUG] Rh9 hosed boot loader

Michael Hrivnak mhrivnak at triad.rr.com
Tue Feb 3 14:49:05 EST 2004


FYI, I recently used "dd" to copy the image of a Mandrake 9.2 install
(mostly default install using lilo) between two identical 60gb drives.
It worked like a charm, boot loader and all.  It took about 5 hours, but
I suspect I could have tweaked the block size to cut that down.

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Jon Carnes
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 2:33 PM
To: Jim Ray; Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Cc: 'Rock Roskam'
Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Rh9 hosed boot loader

You should be able to boot with a rescue disk and load up your
partitions. If you can do that then the culprit is the boot loader, at
that point simply reload grub as the boot loader.

You should use a RH9 cd for the rescue work.

Good luck - Jon Carnes

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 10:46, Jim Ray wrote:
> I did a disk image as opposed to partition image.  Me thinks Steve hit
the
> nail on the head with Ghost being culprit.  I've got a problem with
Ghost
> creating a disk image that doesn't account for the boot sector.
> 
> I just hope I get it fixed before you'll come over...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rock Roskam [mailto:Rock.Roskam at sas.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 10:42 AM
> To: jim at neuse.net; Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Rh9 hosed boot loader
> 
> 
> I have had this problem several times and it turned out that the
imaged
> partition has been set to inactive automatically.  This was with drive
> image.  I am not certain if ghost does the same thing.

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