Hi people MANY thanks people for the advice, after some painful time I have got my system back or at least everything seems fine so far [typing from opera in X].
As a record for myself and or others who may ever need this I performed the following steps 1. Beat head on wall for not thinking to buy a UPS. 2. "broken " drive would allow access to data but bios fail reported at attempt to boot 3. installed new drive as master old as slave 4. booted via liveCD 5. Created new partitions and filesystems similar to old 6. mounted new and old partitions 7. cp -prf /old /new 8. chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash 9. grub-install /dev/hda 10. reboot 11. cheer Had a few recommendations for rsync -a and a few concerns that cp would not cp .files or maintain sufficient permissios etc but I think that cp -prf has managed to acheive the same. thanks again stu On 9/1/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:06:38 -0500, John Jolet wrote: > > > > 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? > > It gets *everything* > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > OPERATOR ERROR: Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, Nyah! > > > -- "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't" --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
