On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Sam Varshavchik<mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Markus Kesaromous writes: > >> On my workstation, with FC9, I attached a second drive, identical to the >> linux boot drive. >> Both drives are SATA. >> The linux boot drive is a dual boot of windows XP and FC9. >> >> In single user mode, I cloned sda to sdb >> >> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=32M >> >> I shut down and remove the second drive and insert it into >> another workstation. >> >> Booting the second workstation fails because it cannot find >> /dev/root, among other things, and the kernel panics. >> >> Repeating the cloning does not seem to have any effect. >> >> This effectively says that an OEM cannot have a master disk to clone disks >> off of it for use in other machines. > > Of course an OEM can. I see no reason why not. > >> Any ideas how to properly clone fedora disks so that they are bootable >> on other machines? > > For starters, investigate what exactly "among other things" is. The kernel's > inability to find /dev/root is a direct result of previous errors. It's the > symptom, but not the cause, of a boot failure. > > Even though both drives are SATA drives, they may have different geometry, > so a sector-by sector copy will result in a somewhat scrambled drive. > > Generally, OEMs clone identical drives. Same make and model, same geometry. > > Furthermore, drives do not get cloned while the machine is actually booted > off the drive, and the partitions are mounted. In the best case, booting the > cloned drive will result in a fsck, and possibly some lost files. Generally, > when OEM clone drives, they boot off a separate drive, in order to clone a > given drive. > > > -- refer to a tutorial at http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/add-new-hdd-to-wdwe not sure if you need clone boot loader? > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
