upgrading drive problems

[Richard F. Hobson]

I am upgrading the HDD on my RH9 box.  I used Drive Image 2002 to clone
the drive (disk-to-disk copy in their terminology).  The copy appeared
to go well, the two partitions and unpartitioned swap space were
recognized correctly on my old drive  and each partition appeared to
copy correctly.  (source was master and new drive-destination was
slave).  I removed the original drive and setup the new one a master and
upon booting got the message "operating system not present".  I
reconnected the old drive as master and the new drive as slave and the
machine booted fine from the old drive.  During boot,   I "saw" the
partitions on the new drive,  failed to mount them but correctly
identified them as "duplicate of boot partition/duplicate of / partition
...etc.   This makes me think the copy was successful.    So the big
question is why won't the new drive boot.   I did resize the partitions
during the copy  (boot, / and unpartitioned swap)  which may have caused
the problem.

So the questions,  should I not have done a resize,  or perhaps just not
on the boot partition?

If that was not the problem,  what else could cause the copy not to
boot?

I did get an error during the drive image process of error #1208 in
inode_table, but after hitting OK it went on and indicated that it was
updating the inode table on the new drive.

So do I have a good copy that just needs configuration or should I wipe
the new drive and start over?

Help here will be greatly appreciated.


Rich.