grub FC7 vs. FC9/10

[Patrick Dupre]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Mogens Kjaer wrote:

> 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.
Did the ext3 change between FC7 and FC9 ?
However, if I do not use grub, I do not have any problem to access to the
file from a FC7 even if I formatted in FC10 !

>
> Can't you boot a FC7 disk in rescue mode and do
> the cloning there?
Yes, I am going to do it again !
But then, I am going to upgrade to FC10, so, what is going to happen
with ext3 ? Does fsck update something ?

>
> Mogens
>
>

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