[K12OSN] Server Clone

[Paul Pianta]

Jim Kronebusch wrote:

>I have tried
>issuing the grub-install command both running from the CD and when
>Chrooted into /tmp/sda2, but I still get the same errors.  That is what
>make me think the formatting is hosed from Ghost.  Also when I go to
>install a clean version of WBEL onto the Ghost formatted drives I have a
>small amount of free space in the front and back of the drive that I
>cannot get rid of unless I initialize the drives from the SCSI bios and
>start over, which really makes me think Ghost is hosing things.
>  
>
The fact that grub-install doesn't recognize your /dev/sda seems strange 
to me. It makes me think that there is something wrong with the 
filesystem underneath.

On the rsync topic - when you boot the new server with a knoppix cd - do 
you see the raid-enabled sda?
If so - have you tried this :
1. partition disk with fdisk - setting up partitions the same as the 
original machine except home is smaller IIRC ...
2. mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
3. mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda2
4. swapon /dev/sdX (not sure you need this step)
5. mkdir /tmp/newroot
6. mkdir /tmp/newroot/boot
7. mount /dev/sda2 /tmp/newroot
8. mount /dev/sda1 /tmp/newroot/boot
9. run the rsync command which syncs original /boot to /tmp/newroot/boot
10. run the rsync command which syncs original / to /tmp/newroot
11. chroot /tmp/newroot
12. grub-install /dev/sda
13. reboot

No idea if that would work but it would be the steps I would try ...

good luck :)

pantz

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