I used dd off the Gnome Live CD, so that neither drives were mounted nor active. Next I proceeded to use dd as follows:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb It took approx. 6 hours to copy over 450GB of data. I was successful at getting getting Grub to come up, was able to select XP and Vista partitions and these booted up just fine. Great! I checked everything and these worked fine as far as I can tell. But when I tried to boot Fedora 9, there was a whole raft of errors spewed out, from "Stale NFS" errors, missing/corrupted/perm problems with /var/run, /var/bin/id, I was not able to tell what the problem and the list is endless. In short, I was not able to boot at all. I could however boot into single user (with lots of errors) but was not really sure what to do next. I tried fsck but there was a warning that I could severely corrupt the / partition, so I declined to follow through with it. Next, I shutdown the system, rebooted with the original drive with the clone added as secondary drive, and brought up GParted and took a look at the cloned drive's partition and everything appears fine except the / partition, it appears with a black border, has a warning exclaimation icon, and the partition is marked as "Unknown". Can someone give me some guidance as to post-followup to dd, or perhaps a repair of / partition, or to simply download Gparted-Live and make a partition to partition copy of / (which I am downloading as I write up this post)? Curiously, why is it that dd works for XP/Vista and not Fedora-9? Thanks! Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
