upgrading drive problems

From: Richard F. Hobson (linux_at_rhobson.com)
Date: 04/23/04

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Date: 23 Apr 2004 15:19:08 -0400

    I am upgrading the HDD on my RH9 box. I used Drive Image 2002 to clone
    the drive (disk-to-disk copy in their terminology). The copy appeared
    to go well, the two partitions and unpartitioned swap space were
    recognized correctly on my old drive and each partition appeared to
    copy correctly. (source was master and new drive-destination was
    slave). I removed the original drive and setup the new one a master and
    upon booting got the message "operating system not present". I
    reconnected the old drive as master and the new drive as slave and the
    machine booted fine from the old drive. During boot, I "saw" the
    partitions on the new drive, failed to mount them but correctly
    identified them as "duplicate of boot partition/duplicate of / partition
    ...etc. This makes me think the copy was successful. So the big
    question is why won't the new drive boot. I did resize the partitions
    during the copy (boot, / and unpartitioned swap) which may have caused
    the problem.

    So the questions, should I not have done a resize, or perhaps just not
    on the boot partition?

    If that was not the problem, what else could cause the copy not to
    boot?

    I did get an error during the drive image process of error #1208 in
    inode_table, but after hitting OK it went on and indicated that it was
    updating the inode table on the new drive.

    So do I have a good copy that just needs configuration or should I wipe
    the new drive and start over?

    Help here will be greatly appreciated.

    Rich. 

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