Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 19:48 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> Yes, I did. I tried all 7 Sata ports and they all behaved the same
> way. This blew me away. Perhaps Sata ports have no unique
> position identifier, such as "I am Sata port #1", ... ?
On someone else's PC, I noticed that there did seem to be some order to
which port was first. But I wonder if your problem is down to something
like:
One of the drives is ready first (Fedora 9 seems quite slow at scanning
devices, and spews out numerous errors in the meantime - at least it's
slow to boot up, and theres lots of dev errors when you plug in USB
drives post-boot).
One of the drive partitions is set up to be "bootable" and the other
not, and that affecting which is first.
Ok, I have to retract what I said about testing all 7 sata ports. It
turns out
that there is precedence on which port is recognized first. I have
mis-tested
this. I am able to find the first sata port on my Intel board and it
does keep
my primary drive as /dev/sda and my cloned drive as /dev/sdb. I am so
happy now!
Now, the problem I have is the cloned drive was not successful with the
dd command. It failed to create the swap partition and it failed to
faithfully
create the / partition.
So it looks like I will have to discover a way to copy clone the
partition of
/. How can I do this safely? cp -a?
What I do not want to do is to copy over from /, the devices for example
so what is the best method for copying over the partitions esp. that of / ?
I think /boot is not a problem with cp -a but I have a feeling / is
significant.
Please advise?
Thanks!
Dan
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