How to drive copy Linux

[McDougall, Marshall (FSH)]

Jay.

Your question comes up on list frequently.  Here is what I do:

Boot with the Linux cd to rescue mode, login as root and run grub.  Once you
have the grub prompt, type "find /boot/grub/stage1" or "find /grub/stage1"
depending on the pathing, without the quotes. The command should return
something to the effect of (hd0,0).  At the prompt, type "root (hd0,0)" or
whatever was returned in the previous command, and hit enter.  Again at the
prompt type "setup (hd0)".  That should reinstall the grub boot loader. Quit
out of grub, exit out of rescue mode and reboot.  You should be good to go.
HTH

Regards, Marshall

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Ehrhart [mailto:yoloits at ycoe.org] 
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 11:52 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: How to drive copy Linux


Thank you but I should have included my reason for the drive copy.  The
server is a production server and has web sites, email, monitoring software,
SpamAssassin and a host of other software.  I am having some hard drive
errors reported in my logs so I thought the easiest way to move all the
files and the installed software was a drive copy to a new drive.


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Subject: RE: How to drive copy Linux


> If the servers are identical, use kickstart to do your install.
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> I am running Red Hat 3 AS with one 36 GB SCSI drive.  I have the drive
> partitioned, home, usr, /, var.  I want to copy the entire drive to
another
> SCSI drive attached to the cable so I can install the drive drive in an
> identical server.  Then I can rename and renumber the server and be done.
I
> used Ghost 7.5 which copied the data but would the system would not boot.
> It got to Grub in the boot squence and stopped.  How can I get this to
work?
> Or what is the method to copy or clone a Linux drive to another?
>
> Thanks,
> Jay
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