dd problems.

[Karl Larsen]

Andrew Parker wrote:
> On 8/30/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>   
>>     The last boot I had the COPY! of this F7 running it appears. All the
>> new mail went to that Hard Drive and all the odd things that happened
>> have stopped when I removed the New Hard Drive. I checked grub.conf and
>> fstab and they are normal now. I noticed that google came up funny so
>> that adds credence to the fact although I planned to boot up the old F7
>> it didn't work.
>>
>>     So now it will be a flurry of reboot to see if I can figure out what
>> happened. I wonder if the file system is ok on the New Hard Drive?
>>     
>
> You can get this confusion when you use labels in your grub config
> and/or fstab and the disks have more than one partition using the same
> label.
>
> This easily happens if you take a disk out of one system and add it to
> another with the same distribution on it.
>
>   
    I think that is the problem. But if I remove the OLD HD and put in 
the NEW HD it will not boot :-(

    So some small thing is wrong with the file system on the NEW HD. And 
that problem was caused by the dd copy.

    I just got 16 more updates :-)



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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