FW: re Kubuntu 8.04 dual boot clonning using ghost (justin)

[Ray Burke]

From: rayburke30 at hotmail.com
To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: RE: re Kubuntu 8.04 dual boot clonning using ghost
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 06:58:26 +1100








Justin,

No I have my cloned thru Ghost 80gbxp pro  drive as master with my K 40gb drive as slave, and get the grub error,
but when I install the pre 80gb xp pro drive back as master (not the cloned but original) with the 40gb K drive it 
boots normal  thru grub to select either xp pro or K, so the ghost dosent work, I have ben told that I can do a clone
of my xp pro via having the 80gb master (xp pro)and 40gb slave (k), and load up live cd "K", aftering loading switch
the backup 80gb thru usb drive on and use command $ dd if=/dev/sda1 of+/dev/sdh1 but when trying to confirm
with K user still no reponse see below of disk config

  rayburke at rayburke-desktop:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1              18G  7.6G  9.0G  46% /
varrun                474M  160K  474M   1% /var/run
varlock               474M     0  474M   0% /var/lock
udev                  474M   88K  474M   1% /dev
devshm                474M     0  474M   0% /dev/shm
lrm                   474M   38M  437M   8% /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/volatile
/dev/sdb2              19G  6.2G   13G  34% /home
/dev/sda1              75G   39G   36G  52% /media/BKUP MAN
/dev/sdh1              75G   37G   38G  50% /media/BKUP MAN-1
rayburke at rayburke-desktop:~$ df /boot
Filesystem           1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1             18034492   7909904   9397488  46% /
rayburke at rayburke-desktop:~$


ray
PS I forgot what does this mean "For a dual boot, put the Kubuntu drive back. It may boot like that, if
it doesn't you will need to boot the Kubuntu install disk into rescue
mode, chroot to your Kubuntu install, and run 'grub-install' targeting
the Windows drive."

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 07:50:11 -0500
Subject: Re: re Kubuntu 8.04 dual boot clonning using ghost
From: eqisow at gmail.com
To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com

Let me see if I can parse that... you have Kubuntu and Windows XP on separate drives, XP is master. Now, after ghosting XP, you have XP as master and no Kubuntu drive?

If that's the case, it would create exactly the problem you described. Grub is installed on the Windows disk MBR, and is setup to look for the /boot files on the second Kubuntu hard drive. Because that drive isn't there, it errors out. There are two fixes for this, depending on whether you want a dual boot again or whether you want just Windows.


For a dual boot, put the Kubuntu drive back. It may boot like that, if it doesn't you will need to boot the Kubuntu install disk into rescue mode, chroot to your Kubuntu install, and run 'grub-install' targeting the Windows drive.


If you just want Windows back, use a Windows XP install CD to get to the recovery console then run fixmbr and fixboot.

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Ray Burke <rayburke30 at hotmail.com> wrote:






anyone out there help?????

I have Kubuntu 8.0.4 dual boot with XP pro sp2, I have clonned the K thru
paragon 8 to save as backup(when in xp pro o/s), but  when I try and Ghost (for clone)the xp pro sp2, it dosent

work as when connect the this backup to master as the original xp pro sp2 is master, and boot
it just comes back in step for grub just continually printing on screen grub grub grub grub grub etc
so what is happening????????? can some help


ray

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