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[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sampsa Riikonen wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> I have duplicated my hard disk using "dd", including the boot
> partition to another hard disk (a sata drive in a usb box).  Now I am
> trying to boot from this duplicated disk, but nothing happens.. grub
> does not start at all.

Hi Sampsa

using dd for copying a harddisk assumes source and target are the same,
which I am guessing yours are not.  You might fare better by copying
across the contents of the filesystem(s), e.g. using rsync, and
(re-)preparing the target drive for booting. 


-- 
Per Jessen, Zürich (0.0°C)

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