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Ghosting RedHat 7.3 = no boot... GRUB...

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bubba

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I am trying to ghost RedHat 7.3 from one machine to a bunch. I am using Ghost 7, which recognises Linux partitions. I just did a straight disk to disk copy (two identical machines). The copy completed successfully, but when I try to boot the ghosted system it just stops with GRUB in the upper left corner and then reboots.

I am using Ghost 7, RedHat 7.3 with 2 ext3 partitions and 1 swap, and GRUB is installed onto the MBR.

Any ideas how I can get the ghosted machine to boot correctly?

Thanks!
 
Ghost supports ext2, and ext3 is exactly the same but with a hidden journal inode.

Most likely the hard disk geometry is different between the two machines and grub can't find enough of it's files to load anything. Make a boot disk from the first machine, boot the second one adding root=/dev/whatever and fix grub.
 

But ext3 is just ext2 with a journal file, so it ought to.

I can boot off the CD into rescue mode and can mount the partitions.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman

Most likely the hard disk geometry is different between the two machines and grub can't find enough of it's files to load anything. Make a boot disk from the first machine, boot the second one adding root=/dev/whatever and fix grub.
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Hmmm... I ghosted the entire disk to an identical machine with the exact same components. I don't see how the disk geometry could be different...
 
I actually had a similar, perhaps the same probelm with GRUB a week ago or so. Even using Partition and Boot Magic I wasn't able to get rid of GRUB, although I was able to fix up the partitions ( I was moving from Linux to Win2k Pro). The only way I could get rid of GRUB was with fdisk. Try "fdisk /MBR", I think that's the command that fixed the drive for me. Also, I believe there is an item about this on the GRUB FAQ (at their site, not an AnandTech FAQ).
 
If your using Win2K and have the recovery console installed just boot to the console and execute FIXMBR.
It'll get rid of Grub and LILO everytime.
 
Did anyone read the whole thread?

He wanted to image a RH install from 1 PC onto others, but grub didn't get setup properly.

He never said he wanted to get rid of GRUB or Linux
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Did anyone read the whole thread?

He wanted to image a RH install from 1 PC onto others, but grub didn't get setup properly.

He never said he wanted to get rid of GRUB or Linux
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Well, I know you read it Nothinman. You get a gold star for reading comprehension! 🙂

 
I actually had a similar, perhaps the same probelm with GRUB a week ago or so. Even using Partition and Boot Magic I wasn't able to get rid of GRUB, although I was able to fix up the partitions ( I was moving from Linux to Win2k Pro). The only way I could get rid of GRUB was with fdisk. Try "fdisk /MBR", I think that's the command that fixed the drive for me. Also, I believe there is an item about this on the GRUB FAQ (at their site, not an AnandTech FAQ).
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I was responding to this post in the thread. Who read the entire thread?
 
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