Transfer F7 partition to a new hard disk
Paul Smith
phhs80 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 20 17:22:49 UTC 2007
On 10/20/07, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The point is that the rescue disk does not boot here, as the original
> > F7 kernel is buggy; the working F7 kernel is recent. Any ideas how to
> > overcome this problem?
>
> Try downloading the Fedora 8 Test 3 Rescue Image
> (http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/fedora/linux/releases/test/7.92/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-7.92-i386-rescuecd.iso).
>
> The methodology I've described is distribution-agnostic, so it doesn't
> matter what distribution you use to perform it.
Thanks to all. I have followed Jonathan's method, but I did not remove
the old disk. However, I did increase the priority of the new disk as
the first one. However, I get the following:
# /sbin/fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500106780160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/sdb: 81.9 GB, 81963220480 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 9965 80040960 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdc: 120.0 GB, 120033041920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 3187 25597952 6 FAT16
/dev/sdc2 3188 3200 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc3 3201 14593 91514272+ 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sdd: 160.0 GB, 160040803840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 10000 80324968+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdd2 10001 19457 75963352+ 8e Linux LVM
#
The new disk is /dev/sda. It is rather strange that it says:
"Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table"
Any ideas?
Paul
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