On 02/07/12 22:05, linux guy wrote:
I got around all this mess by upgrading from the full install DVD. I
found the problem to exist only when updating from the live CDs or pre
upgrading. If I did my upgrade from the full install DVD, everything
worked out OK.
If you need more information, I could go back and look at my notes.
Linux guy,
My question was different but related to this thread.
since Redhat-3 I have been able to duplicate by systems using fdisk,
mkfs, and rsync. In those days it was easy to install lilo on the
replicated system disk to be.
I am still trying to do the same thing using F16. I had an rather
unfortunate experience with Ubuntu and wish to convert all of my
machines to F16.
I cannot find a discussion describing why the current F16 distribution
uses such a complicated partition scheme. I generally opt for two
partitions, a / partition and a swap partition. /boot lives under /. My
current system, working great, is (from fdisk):
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 935733247 467865600 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 935733248 976773119 20519936 82 Linux swap / Solaris
I purchased a couple of disks so I could replicate this system to my
other machines. First problem was that the disks are GPT, so fdisk will
not work (please fix it!). I used parted to make the partitions with the
first partition starting at 2048 (I didn't know why at the time, I just
copied what the full distribution disk had done on install). The
partitions on the new disk are (from parted --list):
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 730GB 730GB ext4 primary boot
2 730GB 750GB 20.2GB linux-swap(v1) primary
But now I cannot find a method to make the disk bootable. I found the
following web page:
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html
which describes a tool called grub2-mkrescue F16. As I understand, it
will make a bootable CD that contains grub2 that will boot the system on
you hard drive. One can then us the grub2-mkconfig, or maybe
grub2-install to make the new drive bootable.
But the grub2-mkrescue fails looking for xorriso:
grub2-mkrescue -o bootableGrub.iso
Enabling BIOS support ...
/usr/bin/grub2-mkrescue: line 310: xorriso: command not found
Should this work? Please advise.
Thanks,
Don
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