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<font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">On my workstation, with FC9, I attached a second drive, identical to the linux boot drive.</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Both drives are SATA.</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">The linux boot drive is a dual boot of windows XP and FC9.</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">In single user mode, I cloned sda to sdb</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=32M</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">I shut down and remove the second drive and insert it into</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">another workstation.</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Booting the second workstation fails because it cannot find<br>/dev/root, among other things</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">, and the kernel panics.</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Repeating the cloning does not seem to have any effect.</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">This effectively says that an OEM cannot have a master disk to </font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">clone disks off of it for use in other machines.</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">Any ideas how to properly clone fedora disks so that they are bootable</font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><br></font><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3">on other machines?</font><br><br><br><br /><hr />Bing™ brings you maps, menus, and reviews organized in one place. <a href='http://www.bing.com/search?q=restaurants&form=MLOGEN&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MLOGEN_Core_tagline_local_1x1' target='_new'>Try it now.</a></body>
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