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I usually create the partitions (based on fdisk -l output of the other 
drive), then use dd to copy the drive and the MBR.

Just my .02 cents...

Best regards,
CB


Greg Freemyer wrote:

>On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:02:37 -0500, Brian MacLeod <bmacleod at guc.usg.edu> wrote:
>  
>
>>Reload Grub with grub-install?
>>
>>The geometry of your new drive will be different than the one that you
>>imaged from, and Grub can be a little finicky at times when it comes to
>>geometry, and looking for partitions it thought were here, when they are
>>now there.
>>
>>bnm
>>
>>    
>>
>I tiried, but grub-install failed.  It was wll into the install that
>it failed, so I tried a reboot anyway.  No luck.
>
>I went to the Ghost / Linux compatibility and it specifically says
>Grub is not supported. :(
>
>I also doubled checked my filesystem type and it is reiserfs, which is
>also not supported by Ghost.  I suspect I have filesystem issues that
>are not showing up with just a quick mount, but they do when real work
>is attempted.
>
>I am falling back.  I have a drive identical to the one in the
>original machine.  I just booted that machine into the SUSE Live Cd
>and initiated a dd copy of hda to hdc.  That should do the job, but it
>may take a while to finish the copy.  (80 GB).
>
>Thanks
>Greg
>  
>


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