Cloning a disk pt3
Liam Proven
lproven at gmail.com
Mon Oct 18 12:56:46 UTC 2010
On 17 October 2010 14:43, Ash Wyllie <ashw at lr.net> wrote:
> Partial success!!
>
> There I was looking at a Ubuntu-9.04 live cd, and I thought: why not?
>
> I booted from it, and the copy option was un ghosted.
>
> I made a new USB drive from the cd, and the copy option was there as well.
>
> I did the copy, and it worked.I setup a swap partition. I expanded the
> partition from 109GB to 228GB and set the boot flag. It didn't boot.
>
> Back to a copy. And it booted.
>
> So now to get expand the partition and make it bootable.
> .
> .
> .
> No luck. The expanded partition won't boot.
>
> I'll try a copy and paste to the whole 228GB, let it run over night and update
> everyone tomorrow.
Try the standard procedure for reinstalling GRUB for the version
you're using. The version on the HD, not the version on the LiveCD,
unless they're the same.
And if they are the same, you should not still be on 9.04, it is past it now!
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