grub FC7 vs. FC9/10

Mogens Kjaer mk at crc.dk
Thu Nov 27 11:02:37 UTC 2008


Patrick Dupre wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tried to clone my FC7 to another disk, this it what I did by using
> fedora 9 (I also tried Fedora 10) live.
> mke2fs /dev/sdc5
> tune2fs -j /dev/sdc5
> mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt/linux1 -o ro
> mount /dev/sdc5 /mnt/linux2
> cp -a /mnt/linux/* /mnt/linux2
> 
> run a gunb install
> fsck /dev/sdc5
> 
> But it looks like tha grub do not like when I try to boot on /dev/sdc5,
> I get an error 2: (bad file or directory type).

Most likely FC7's kernel doesn't like the ext3 file
system created.

Can't you boot a FC7 disk in rescue mode and do
the cloning there?

Mogens

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