Re: [CentOS] CF disks images and centos

2010-11-30 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
> On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 01:10:14 pm Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > > Even if the two disks have the same manufacturer and > > manufacturer part number, different firmware revisions can fail to boot after > > dd if=/dev/spinpoint.partnumber.fwrev1 of=/dev/spinpoint.partnumber.fwrev2 > > > Be

Re: [CentOS] CF disks images and centos

2010-11-30 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 01:10:14 pm Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > Even if the two disks have the same manufacturer and manufacturer part > number, different firmware revisions can fail to boot after > dd if=/dev/spinpoint.partnumber.fwrev1 of=/dev/spinpoint.partnumber.fwrev2 > Been there, done

Re: [CentOS] CF disks images and centos

2010-11-30 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 02:13:17 pm Robert Heller wrote: > Right. clonezilla is much more than dd. I would suspect that > clonezilla is a bundling of sfdisk, dump/restore, and grub-install, or > something link that. According to the clonezilla website, dd is one of the supported methods:

Re: [CentOS] CF disks images and centos

2010-11-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/30/2010 1:13 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > At Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:26:04 -0600 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> >> On 11/30/2010 12:10 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: >>> > The size has changed. The original CF card was 7637M (255 heads/63 > sectors/928 cylinders) > The new CF card is

Re: [CentOS] CF disks images and centos

2010-11-30 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:26:04 -0600 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 11/30/2010 12:10 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > > > >>> The size has changed. The original CF card was 7637M (255 heads/63 > >>> sectors/928 cylinders) > >>> The new CF card is 8019M (255 heads/63 sectors/974 cylinders) > >>>

Re: [CentOS] CF disks images and centos

2010-11-30 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/30/2010 12:10 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > >>> The size has changed. The original CF card was 7637M (255 heads/63 >>> sectors/928 cylinders) >>> The new CF card is 8019M (255 heads/63 sectors/974 cylinders) >>> >>> I simply do "dd if=cf.img of=/dev/sde" to copy the images to CF. >> >> ARG!!

Re: [CentOS] CF disks images and centos

2010-11-30 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 09:46:03 am Jerry Geis wrote: > However its not. centos boots but there are journal issues and > everything is mounted read-only. Can you get log snippets showing why the journal had issues? > Any ideas why this doesnt work or how I can keep my smaller image and >

Re: [CentOS] CF disks images and centos

2010-11-30 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
> > The size has changed. The original CF card was 7637M (255 heads/63 > > sectors/928 cylinders) > > The new CF card is 8019M (255 heads/63 sectors/974 cylinders) > > > > I simply do "dd if=cf.img of=/dev/sde" to copy the images to CF. > > ARG!!! Don't do this! You really, really don't want t

Re: [CentOS] CF disks images and centos

2010-11-30 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:46:03 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have 8G -CF cards that I have been putting linux on. > Everything was working fine till yesterday when I got a new batch of CF > cards. > > The size has changed. The original CF card was 7637M (255 heads/63 > se

[CentOS] CF disks images and centos

2010-11-30 Thread Jerry Geis
Hi all, I have 8G -CF cards that I have been putting linux on. Everything was working fine till yesterday when I got a new batch of CF cards. The size has changed. The original CF card was 7637M (255 heads/63 sectors/928 cylinders) The new CF card is 8019M (255 heads/63 sectors/974 cylinders)