MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run grub-install just to be sure.
You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/ (putting in the appriopriate mount locations of course) Ben Blount On 9/1/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 01 September 2005 18:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:36:59 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: > > > My question :- > > > > > > I need to "copy" all from hdb to hda what would be the sugested route? > > > > If both drives are the same size > > > > dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=4096 > will that get the mbr, or does he still need to do the grub-install step? > -- > John Jolet > Your On-Demand IT Department > 512-762-0729 > www.jolet.net > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
