General :: Move Boot Drive To New System?
Jul 19, 2010
I have been given a new system, but want to try moving my old server's system / boot drive directly to it, rather than re-install.
All of the hardware is different, what am I letting myself in for? What should I prepare for?
Existing system OS is Ubuntu 10.04 Server, non-specific install from live CD.
I've done this before on Win XP and it was a nightmare, but I suppose that's not really designed for that sort of thing. I'm hoping that linux will be easier.
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Mar 26, 2010
Is it possible to move the boot and OS drive to another controller and still boot machine?
I moved the boot drive sdb1 to a different controller and I can figure out how to make the machine boot from it.
I changed the bios and get a brief boot indication, I then editted menu.lst in the grub folder and pointed it to the new device but still the machine won't boot.
Is there something I need to do, other than reinstall?
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Feb 28, 2010
I want to move a folder from USB drive to desktop, any directory, let say usr directory. But don't know what the name for usb drive and where to find it, i know i am going to use mv command.
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May 8, 2010
Slackware's lilo runs from sdb1. I installed ubuntu studio on sda3.
I can't boot it from lilo.
Code:
boot = /dev/sda
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sdb1
abel = Slack64-cu-sdb1
read-only
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Jun 22, 2010
Something caused my Fedora 11 system to reboot this evening, only it keeps trying to boot from a CD/DVD. I get to a prompt that says "Boot from CD/DVD" and then it appears just to wait. I can insert my Fedora 11 installation disk and boot from it in rescue mode, and then I can see my entire file system, so I don't think the hard drive has failed. The system just doesn't seem to want to boot from the HD any more. I can get to a command line using the Fedora rescue mode, but I don't know what to do once I'm there.
one additional note. Around a month and a half ago I deleted some files by mistake and wanted to try to recover them. I tried a bunch of approaches that I came across (none worked), and I do remember that one of them had instructions to unmount a portion of the filesystem to protect it from being overwritten before I could recover the files.
Unfortunately, at this point I have no real memory of exactly what I did, but the system has been working fine since then. I would have thought that I had rebooted since then, but it's possible that this is the first time I've rebooted. Could I have unmounted some part of the file system such that it would still by unmounted even when rebooting? How can I check this from the command line I get in rescue mode? (My file system gets mounted under /mnt/sysimage/)
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Feb 16, 2010
I've for quite a while been going forward with making my own linux system with a purpose of being USB bootable. A lot of it has been taken from LFS and molded to my needs. The purpose of this is to, most of all, learn. My aim is to have a small linux system, bootable on most systems and able to run burnintest in textmode. This will be run of a vfat formatted pen drive with syslinux. The rootfs is run from a ext2 image file. My current image is bootable and is able to run burnintest, I do however still have some polishing to do.
I began this project by using uClibc and my image would be tiny enough to be run from a single initrd (20mb ~). What I didn't consider is the fact that burnintest is pre compiled using glibc, so had to re-do everything with a different c library.. After doing this I realized i no longer would be able to boot simply from ram as loading ~80mb to ram takes quite a lot of time during boot. I'd really like to keep the rootfs in an image file for easier management and I so far haven't found a way to mount this roofs image.
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Apr 16, 2011
My Toshiba Satellite 5205-S705 laptop with Win XP Home sp3 has a non-working cd drive, is riddled with viruses, and isn't capable of booting to a USB drive. (please no comments about paperweights etc., it's all I have!) I want to install a Linux dual-boot version that is heavy on antivirus scanning support. Since I can't boot to an .iso disk, is there any other way to do this? I can transfer files to it via USB thumbdrive or download via Internet.
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Mar 20, 2010
I have minor problem with upgrading a hard drive. I am running an old pentium lll with two hard drives. On the first hard drive I have two partitions of around 90GB each. On the first partition is installed winXP and on the second partition I have Suse 10.3, both booted by grub and living happily side by side. My second hard drive (which is formatted for windows is only 4GB.
My problem arises when I try to replace the 4GB with a 80Gb hard drive. When I disconnect the 4GB drive the system fails to boot up and complains with error 21.
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Mar 12, 2011
I have a laptop with an 80GB SSD and 500GB HDD. I currently have Windows installed on the SSD, and a 400GB data partition for Windows on the HDD. I set aside 100GB on the HDD to try out Ubuntu, and I'd like to make it my primary OS and switch it over to the (much) faster SSD.
How could I go about getting my Ubuntu setup moved over to the SSD? I have a 120GB USB hard drive I can use if necessary for getting through it.
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Mar 16, 2010
My parents bought a new hard drive for a laptop that I've owned for several years. It's much larger than the current one, so I plan on splitting it up to dual boot it with Ubuntu.I have no problem with partitioning a drive (I always keep a LiveCD handy), but my question is this: how can I go about moving the existing partition to the new drive? This is a laptop, so I can't simply plug the new drive into another slot.
Also, even if I manage to move it, will Windows still work on the new drive in a larger partition? I've had this laptop for quite a while, and I've lost the recovery discs that came with it a long time ago. I also have a lot of software without CDs to reinstall them with. This makes not reinstalling Windows a high priority.
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Jan 2, 2010
I did a quick search but came up with nothing. I'll list things in point form to make it less confusing
-I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 with GRUB 1.97
-I have Windows 2000 installed on VirtualBox
-I have an NTFS partition with just music and my data on it, but no windows OS
-I want to take what I have on VirtualBox and put it on my NTFS partition
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Jun 6, 2011
This is the equivilent of a DJ going into the"dusty records bin"to play an old song.I've got a hard drive that's left over from a Mandriva Spring 2008 computer and I need to copy the photos off it to a DVD and move them to a computer running Ubuntu.I can't seem to get the Ubuntu computer to access what's on the Mandriva drive, so I've loaded Mandriva Spring 2008 on another computer.
I've accessed the photos I need easily enough, but can't copy them to a storage medium so I can move them to the other computer. I've tried two USB devices, an external DVD drive and a flash drive and can't just copy (or drag 'n drop) the files to the other devices.This evening I may try a portable hard drive, again with a USB connection, and see if that works.
If there's a fool-proof way to do this by using a terminal, I'll try that. I haven't been able to devote enough time to Linux to familiarize myself with terminal commands. Or, if there's a program that will run under Mandriva Spring 2008 that will let me accomplish the transfer, I'll try that as well.
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Feb 5, 2011
So I install Ubuntu 10.10 on a multi-drive, dual boot with windows 7 computer. At almost the end of the install, I see "running grub-install sda" or whatever it is. sda is my windows drive.So rather than asking where to install the bootloader or give you the option like it used to, it just did it to my "first" drive.
What the hell? Now my Windows MBR is gone. I like to maintain that so if my linux drive dies I can still boot into windows via the old windows boot loader.Possible to move Grub2 to my other drive and repair windows 7 drive MBR?
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Sep 21, 2010
I want to know the command, so that i can move back two days i.e. all the changes i made during the two day is rolled back .
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Feb 24, 2011
I installed Ubuntu Maverick as a file within Windows XP. A folder was created called Ubuntu and two files called wubildr and wubildr.mbr appeared on my C-Drive. The Windows boot.ini file looks like this code...
The initial 8 GB I gave to Ubuntu is too small and I would like to move the file to my D-Drive and expand it to 40 GB.
I would hate to have to begin again from scratch. Is this possible? If so, how?
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Mar 30, 2011
i have installed fedora 14 with so many libraries ,development tools installed on my pc but i usually have to present some projects which can run on my system .........and can't be executed or compiled due to absence of libraries and tools there so, i there some way to so that i can use this current installation on my hard drive of my pc to some external media like external hard disk and plug and use that installation anywhere on any system..
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Sep 26, 2010
I tried setting up sftp for my users. Each of my user have their home directory at "/var/www/public_html/$USER". When my users are using sftp, they can only see their own directories and unable to move to other locations of the system. I followed through the following tutorials: [URL]
The users are able to sftp into the system successfully. However, they are able to see the whole system. Somehow, it appears that the users are not jailed in their home directory although in the tutorial it states otherwise. The difference of my system against the tutorial is that I am using Dropbear for SSH server while it is using Openssh server. Although dropbear does not support sftp, I am able to login through sftp through the use of sftp-server. For the internal mechanics, I am not sure how though.
Assuming that when I tried to SFTP, the sftp-server is ran with the sshd_config, then everything should be working fine right? Do i need to run chroot command at all? The following is the procedure I used to attempt the objective:
1) Add a new user to the group: SFTPonly
2) Chown user:SFTPonly user/home/directory
2) Modify the sshd_config to what is reflected in the tutorial and other paths.
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Jul 25, 2011
I have an Acer Aspire one which runs ubuntu 10.04. Recently it has developed a problem upon loading it where the screen will not stop flickering and won't allow me to see anything, let alone try to solve the problem. I did have a good google session and found that others have had this problem before, but I couldn't find a solution that worked. I decided to install the newest version via bootable usb and originally try SysLinux but for some reason it would not work, so I have since tried other programs to create a bootable usb. My problem is that whichever software I use, whenever I boot from the usb I get the original SysLinux page and cannot move from there.
Has SysLinux somehow changed the mbr of my usb stick? I'm basically stuck and this is my only non-essential usb so I don't want to use another one.
P.S. sorry if this is in the wrong section of the forum, I wasn't sure where to put it.
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Jun 18, 2011
I have Ubuntu 11.04 on a hard drive that has Windows 7 as well. I just obtained another hard drive and want to move Ubuntu and all of the contents therein to the new drive, so I can have one drive dedicated solely for Windows (for the family) and Ubuntu on the other. The current drive is a SATA drive and the new is an IDE if that makes a difference.
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May 10, 2009
I've got a linux system on a floppy that boots into a console via which I can mount a Ubuntu 8.04 cdrom (live cd); however after this I can't seem to figure out howto get the ubuntu system to start, any ideas?By the way the system cannot boot from a cd-drive nor can it boot via a usb device..
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Jul 20, 2010
I just recently installed ubuntu 9.10 in my upstairs computer. It is a single boot system.Downstairs I have a dual boot system. I have windows vista and ubuntu 9.10 installed. It worked fine. I wanted to make this a single boot system and uninstall ubuntu 9.10. I cannot get rid of the grub bootloade
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Oct 16, 2009
I'll start by explaining what my system layout currently is. I have Fedora 11 X64 installed on my system, it is an HP Dv9380ca laptop. My system has 2 hdd /dev/sda /dev/sdb. During the setup i set my home directory to reside on /dev/sdb. After booting i realized that my root and swap partition are part of a volume group name vg_sharpfed and are set in fstab as:
/dev/mapper/vg_sharpyfed-lv_root / ext4 defaults 1 1
/dev/mapper/vg_sharpyfed-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0
Output of Fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1aecda8d
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My /dev/sda2 partitions is 100gigs and set as an LVM. Essentially what i am getting at is, if it's possible to temporarily copy / /boot and swap to my second partition, edit grub if needed and fstab to mount to the temp locations, format sda to ext4 create partitions for / /boot and swap partitions, then copy back the original directories edit required fstab to mount the original locations and no longer have them contained in a Logical volume.
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Aug 31, 2010
I'm trying to get a dual boot system. [URL] So i'm just following it. But but when i try to load Linux from the NTLDR i just get this error: BootPart 2.60 Bootsector (c) 1993-2005 Gilles Vollant [URL] Loading new partition Bootsector from C.H. Cannot load from harddisk. Insert Systemdisk and press any key.
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Jun 20, 2011
I have been using g4l to do cold backups of my OS partitions for a LONG time. I finally decided to configure a boot USB flash drive instead of a CD for this purpose. Using the EXCELLENT instructions on this page [URL] I configured a Lexar 1 GB Firefly drive and have used it for some time. When a newer version of g4l came out I decided to build another boot flash drive using a Verbatim 1GB drive. I followed the same instructions and...
The Verbatim flash drive will boot my Dell Studio XPS and my Dell Latitude 2100 netbook. It will NOT boot either of my Dell Dimension 4600s. The Dimension 4600s respond with a message "Missing operating system" when I try to boot from the Verbatim drive. The Firefly works on all machines and I configured Kingston 1GB and 2GB Data Travelers which also work on all machines.
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Feb 27, 2011
I have a USB drive on which I want to install Arch Linux (using the installer, not unetbootin or something similar, as I want the drive to be persistent.) The computer from which I want to boot this USB supports booting from a USB floppy, not a normal drive. Is there any way for me to make a USB floppy on another drive and use that to boot the normal USB drive?
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Feb 24, 2010
I used to know how to access and rw other linux drives and do the fstab magic. For some reason I've lost my touch. I just want the drive to automount and have full access. I don't need a beginners tutorial on mkdir and fdisk -l. Is there a foolproof way to get my drives to do what I want? I dual boot fedora and ubuntu, but have the same issues on both.
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Jan 29, 2010
i have a problem when i use test drive, it doesn't boot into the operating system. it just look like in dos when i login. what is wrong? shouldn't test drive let me see how its look when i use the live CD?
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Aug 31, 2010
I'm trying to get a dual boot system. And my situation is exactly as the situation described is this article:URL...
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Sep 28, 2009
Yesterday I was on my Windows computer doing homework. Once Football came on, I hit the Standby button on my keyboard and walked out of my room. Came back at halftime to discover that my system never went into Standby. I turned on my monitor and saw a bunch of code repeating. I don't remember it all, but it was something to this effect
Super Block not compatible with current BIOS
scanning for *insert system file here*.... not found
scanning for floppy drive... not found
scanning for cdrom1... not found
So I hit the restart button on my tower. When it restarted, I was brought back to the same screen. So I unplugged the power cord from my computer and counted to 10. I plugged it back in and this time I got my mobo logo screen and the system appeared to start up fine, until I got to the SATA drive scanning screen. When my computer would scan for my SATA hard drive, it would idle for several minutes, during which a series of periods (".") would show up until eventually I get a message that says: WARNING! - Something wrong with your hardware!
I have troubleshooted a number of things so far:
1) I took my SATA Hard Drive out of my computer and plugged it into my Linux computer and the system booted fine! I used the same SATA cord, so I know both the drive and the cord ARE WORKING!
2) I tested the power cord from the power supply that runs to my HD and it is working just fine.
3) I plugged the HD back into my Windows computer (the original one it was in when I started having this problem) and I ran GParted. When the GUI came on, I could not see any drives and there was a message at the bottom of the window saying that no devices could be found. This was no surprise to me because I watched the verbose mode as GParted booted and it gave error messages when it tried scanning for my hard drive.
4) I have also tried plugging it into the other SATA ports on my motherboard.
5) I tried flashing the mobo BIOS. The flash worked just fine (or at least it appeared so), but the HD is still not being found on the system boot scan.
Bottom line, I know the hard drive is fine because it worked in my Linux computer. So I am thinking it has to be the motherboard. But before I go out and buy a new Mobo and CPU (and possibly new RAM), I wanted to quickly jump on here.
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Sep 11, 2011
I want to convert the file system on my boot drive from ext4 to btrfs.
I have converted by 2nd drive, unsure of how to convert the boot drive and partitions.
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