I'm trying to figure out how to clone the root partition of a Debian Linux installation. The installation is pretty small and hosted on a small, PC-104 based system that has only a root partition and runs without swap. I would like to be able to "clone" its root partition onto other disks but am running into a problem. I installed the disk from the PC-104 system in another regular desktop machine and tried to copy the image of the PC-104 system using:
# dd bs=512 if=/dev/hdc1 of=disk.image I then tried to copy this new image onto another disk of the same type as running in the PC-104 system using (obviously installed in the desktop machine): # dd bs=512 if=disk.image of=/dev/hdc1 The partition image gets copied fine, but when I go to boot up this copied disk (after being re-installed in one of the PC-104 systems) it doesn't finish booting. I see "LIL- " when booting the PC-104 system. This, according to the LILO docs indicates that the descriptor table is corrupt, caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running /sbin/lilo. I'm confused by this as it seems that the low level copy with 'dd' should copy everything. Any ideas?? Thanks...
