Re: Linux fedora core 4 ... GRUB loading stage2... booting message

From: Lenard (lenard_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 11/17/05

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    someone92@hotmail.com wrote:

    >
    > Lenard wrote:
    >> Was this a clean install (wipe and load) or did you do an upgrade??
    >
    > yes it was a clean install, I know it was a stupid idea to keep the
    > boot sector file but it worked for a while.
    >
    > by the way I just tried to ghost the boot partition today and I receive
    > an error, maybe it as something to do with the fact that everything was
    > working correctly an sudently stoped working.
    >
    >
    > here's the original message:

    Yes, I saw your post in another group..... Do Not use ghost on any Linux
    system. The original version of ghost (before Symantec purchased it) was
    written and based for OS/2. Became so popular for cloning Windows system
    Symantec purchased it. A few versions later it no longer worked from OS/2
    and the current versions do not handle Linux partitions correctly, the 1999
    version is the last version I know of that can handle ext2 partitions
    fairly well. Best advice is to use Windows based tools for Windows and
    Linux based tools for Linux.

    You might want to look into using parted (and maybe qtparted a GUI to
    parted) and Partimage as a replacement for ghost for Linux. I have found
    that the SystemRescueCD works well for this;

    http://www.sysresccd.org/ 

    -- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
 safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."     -- B. Franklin, 1759
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