neutron68: I resized my partitions everytime I upgraded my dirves and never had a problem with LILO. Have you checked your partitons to verify that there are no errors on it before using Ghost?

I resized all partitions (except for the SWAP) to larger sizes.

I used g4u and gparted. g4u to copy from the old drive 160GB to the new drive 300GB and then gparted to resize the /myth partition. Both programs have bootable ISO images. I used a CD-RW. gparted may be able to copy and resize in one process. I didn't know about gparted until after I used g4u, which does not resize partitions.

The clone hard drive made with Ghost 2003 booted fine after fixing LILO.
I used the Ultimate Boot CD to boot the computer - I chose "Tom's boot disk" from the UBCD menu.

Here's the summarized procedure:

- Cloned the partitions from drive 1 to drive 2 with Ghost 2003 - resizing partitions as desired
- I swapped out drive1 and changed drive2 to be the master drive
- I Booted with UBCD

...and all worked

I would like to know how the other person avoided having to fix LILO after using Ghost 2003. The one-step operation is the goal.

Eric

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Just an FYI, I used the KnoppMyth's install CD quitting out of the install menu and then using neutron68's instructions. Just a little quicker if you don't have access to UBCD. The /mnt/hda1 directory already existed.

What am I doing wrong? I used this code to fix lilo after using Ghost 2003 to copy a R5D1 Knoppmyth drive 6-9 months ago. Now, it doesn't work with R5E50 or R5F1



I am currently using the Knoppmyth live cd to boot the pc and to get a command line to type the commands.

I get a warning that "/proc/partitions does not exist, disk scan bypassed".

After reboot, the Linux boot text complains that the drive is read only. HUH? Above I told it to mount the drive as read/write (the -o rw command).

I'm at a loss to understand why it worked before and doesn't work now?! See anything obvious?

For now, I'm going to run "fsck.ext3 -f /dev/hdb1" on my source drive, then copy the drive again to the hda1 drive and see if that helps any.

<update> It didn't help.

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I did this today, and this is how:

Perform a backup on the existing disk.
Shut down the box
Transfer the old disk to another channel and place the new one
Perform a clean Knoppmyth install on the new disk, and setup.
Become root
Mount the old disk's /myth partition (e.g. "mkdir /mnt/olddisk && mount /dev/hdc3 /mnt/olddisk")
copy the files from the old disk's /myth with "cp -pR /mnt/olddisk/* /myth/"
perform a restore (KM will read the /myth/backup/* you just copied)
Test, then shutdown
Remove old disk

No need for ghost at all. Lilo is reinstalled when you reinstall and will work.

Mike

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For my application of cloning a working Knoppmyth install to another hard drive of a different size, I want to clone and resize partitions in the same step. In my searches I have not found another piece of software will clone and resize partitions at the same time.

In my previous Ghost clone/resize ventures, I was cloning from a smaller hard drive to a bigger hard drive. This time, I am moving from an 80GB drive down to a 20GB drive to free up the 80GB drive for other uses. (Before you ask: no, the big hard drive does not have more data on it than the target small hard drive will hold. ) Perhaps moving down to a smaller drive is the problem with LILO?

Last night, I tried using the gparted LiveCD to try and duplicate what Ghost does. Gparted will copy partitions and resize partitions, but it cannot do both these steps at once - making it impossible to clone from a big hard drive down to a small hard drive. (I have not tried Ghost4Linux, because I have read it cannot resize partitions.)

A friend just suggested that I use gparted to downsize the partitions on my source big hard drive before cloning them to the small hard drive. I suppose this will work for this instance where I am going to erase the big hard drive after a successful clone, anyway. I'll have to give this a try before I give up. But for future cloning, I will most likely want to leave the source hard drive untouched as a backup.

Eric

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More proof that questions come in clusters around here... http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15696 This thread links to a couple that discusses ways of doing this without anything extra like ghost. Yes, ghost will work, but there are other answers.

I took my Ghost 2003 problem to a new thread - and found a solution!

http://www.mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15853

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