Backup booting
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Sat Jun 7 14:24:23 UTC 2008
Nils Kassube wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>> I have a rsync backup on my computer at /dev/hda7. The backup came
>> from /dev/sda2. The backup on hda7 was taken from sda2 to a USB hard
>> drive. That was then sent to hda7.
>>
>> Both /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst were changed to reflect the
>> new location on hda7. Copied the menu.lst from the new to the current
>> menu.lst so it can be tried easy.
>>
>> When I boot the backup it goes quite a ways but errors out looking
>> for some std USB things. That seems to be wrong. Here are the parts of
>> both menu.lst and fstab for review. I am certain menu.lst is working.
>>
>
> Well, I don't see anything suspicious in your menu.lst or fstab. And "some
> std USB things" isn't very specific - could you post the actual error
> message?
>
>
> Nils
>
>
Hi Nils, I do not know how to do that. I do not think dmesq is even
written when it stops. So what do you recommend as a way to bring the
error message? I probably need to read it too :-)
Karl
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