Some Advice needed on cloning a Server

jbarry jbgonzaga at gmail.com
Sun Sep 30 00:10:58 BST 2007


> > > but when I booted that disk the display would only say
> > >
> > > GRUB
> > >
> > > and nothing else. So maybe it cannot see the partitions since 7.04
> > > uses UUID in fstab, so I edited those also in the GRUB's menu.lst but
> > > it wont still bootup. What did I miss?
> > >
> > > here is the partitioning scheme
> > >
> > > /dev/sda3    as /
> > > /dev/sda1    as /boot
> > > /dev/sda4    as /home
> > > /dev/sda2    as swap
> > >
> > > I need to clone the server so that I can easily try out the FAT-client
> > > setup and pullback to the original disk when things go bonkers.
> >
> > How did you do the cloning?
>
> I used norton Ghost to clone the server, but when booting the clone
> only the word GRUB will show.

Hmmm after much reading I found out that UUIDS should have work
regardless of disk as long as I don't use both disk on the same
machine at the same time. so my disk was actually cloned but grub is
not properly setup.

Any hints as to how to fix GRUB?

thanks

jBarry



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