>> On Thursday 29 April 2004 12:34, Paul Kelly :: Blacknight
> Solutions wrote:
>> > He could start his system once he has copied the disk using
> dd from a
> > cdrom, and mount each partition into say /mnt/mysystem -
> mounting each
> > mount point as it should be, e.g. hda1 in /mnt/mysystem and hda2
> > /mnt/mysystem/boot etc etc and do the following, chroot
> /mnt/mysystem,
> > this would essentially put him in a position to run lilo or
> > grub-install acordingly to restore the mbr, after editing
> lilo.conf or
> > grub.conf...
>> I didn't actually understand this.
> Where does a CD come into it?
The cd is your OS cd, be it Redhat/Gentoo/Debian etc, most of them have
a disaster recovery mode which has the tool "chroot" on them. Simply dd
the old disk onto the new one, edit the files /etc/fstab and
/etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/grub.conf to reflect the new device, be it
from /dev/hda1 to /dev/sda1 etc and then mount each partition into the
new directory structure /mnt/somearbitaryfolder and run lilo or
grub-install from there.
I don't think its possible to copy the mbr unless the disk is the exact
same model, and even at that it would be a long shot.
>> But I really just wanted to mention that the
> Hard-Disk-Upgrade HOWTO is very good, IMHO.
That's not something I've had to look at :)
Paul
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