On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 16:14, Sunny wrote:
OK, here is the summary:
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So, the solution was, as per Silviu Marin-Caea's and Mike McMullin's advice, I tried partimage. I did not used a server part for this. Just mounted the samba share, instructed partimage to create 2GB chunks, and of course to gzip the backup. After the partition backup, i did: dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1 to backup the MBR.
Then inserted the new HDD, and restored the MBR with dd if=mbr.img of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
This as well restores the partition table.
Now, the problem was that partimage failed to restore. It segfaulted using the user interface, and using the command line complained that the target partition is 0 size and can not continue. I rebooted the machine, and now everything worked fine. I would really like to know what I needed to do in order to refresh the partition table without rebooting, but I couldn't find any info about this.
I've never had this problem Sunny. My only problem has been with the MBR though, and I fixed it (WinME) using fdisk /mbr, after that windows was usable, and I think I used the tols on the install disk (9.1) to fix grub as the boot loader.
Anyway ... I'm done. Memtest from SuSE install DVD is running (I added a new memory), and tomorrow I'll be all set with a new lappy (I hope :) )
Cheers and thanks for all the help
Best of luck Mike