[nflug] ghosting dual boots and grub

[Eric Benoit]

I think I am going to test clonesys or dolly from what I briefly read it 
seems that one can handle cloning dual boots over the network to 
mulitple stations... plus it's opensource free on linux here's the link:

http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/CoPs/patagonia/


Cyber Source wrote:

> My pleasure, glad to hear you got it goin. To you and all, have a good 
> T-day!
>
> Eric Benoit wrote:
>
>> Cyber,   I found something called grub-disk in synaptec I guess a 
>> grub recovery ...very simple to use ...boot it up edit the (hd0,0) to 
>> reflect (hd0,1) click b for boot and wa-la!  Thanks for your help, 
>> now I can have a good Thanksgiving.
>>
>> ~eric
>>
>>
>> Cyber Source wrote:
>>
>>> Eric Benoit wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to ghost disk to disk a dual boot of debian and WinXP 
>>>> ...the first ghost worked great
>>>> now none of the rest of them of the same type disks work right, 
>>>> GRUB goes into an infinit loop with the newly created disk.  So, 
>>>> far the only way I have been able to resolve this is by 
>>>> reinstalling Debian... does anyone Know why this would be happening?
>>>>
>>>> Thank in advance, eric
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>>> I've seen that before, you really should just have used ghost to do 
>>> the windows partition and dump or tar for the Linux stuff. My guess 
>>> would be that the mbr didnt get written properly or was deleted. I 
>>> wouldn't be suprised to see that ghost would default to erasing the 
>>> mbr knowing that windows can boot with a blank one. Before you give 
>>> up, take one of the drives that finished ghosting and boot it with a 
>>> Linux rescue cd, preferably the same version and distro that you 
>>> have on the drive, then mount the Linux side and reinstall grub to 
>>> the mbr (master boot record), "grub-install /dev/hda" assuming you 
>>> are working with an ide drive as master on the first channel. If you 
>>> hadn't changed the drive layout, etc., it should read as it was and 
>>> all should be ok. Let me know how it makes out.
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