From: "Solarisexpert.com" <submissions@solarisexpert.com> Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 22:08:17 -0400 Message-ID: <IBEALMOLEDIGBEMJPPDAAEFMCDAA.submissions@solarisexpert.com> Subject: [suse-sparc] RE: Cloning boot disk
>
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 06:36:56PM -0400, Solarisexpert.com wrote:
> > I have 2 SCSI hard drives, different geometries (1Gb vs. 9GB ;
> dd will not
> > work).
> >
> > How do I clone them (tar may be ok ?) so that my new disk
> becomes bootable
> > (meaning, what is the Linux equivalent of the solaris
> 'installboot'?) and
> > all the data is preserved ?
>
> Boot a rescue disk, mount both disks like in /target and /target2, then
> do[1]:
>
> cp -a /target/. /target2/.
>
> When that's done, do:
>
> chroot /target2 /sbin/silo -f
>
> That should do it for you.
>
>
> Ben
>
Well, moved more by laziness more than anything else, I partially took the
advice here and I made a live copy of the disk with tar instead. I created a
tarball on the new drive I had mounted under /mnt using a simple 'tar cvf
/mnt/root.tar /' . Later on I changed directory and issued a 'tar xvf
./root.tar'.
That could have probably been accomplished with a cleaner approach, using
something like
tar -cvO / | tar xv -C /mnt
The version of tar I use under Solaris has a different sintax and I was not
comfortable taking chances on my only good disk with my finally fully
functional kernel and 4 days of work on getting the socal driver to work...
I am pretty sure it will do the job.
I almost forgot, make sure you use the --exclude flag on tar to keep at
least /proc/kcore out of the tarball. If you forget, you will be reading
through all of your physical memory. (I am not sure if you cn leave out all
of /proc. I think this should be built dynamically every time the kernel
initializes, but I am not sure if the kernel expects to find at least the
mount points for the virtual filesystems... Any hints here ?)
I stil needed the bootblock to contain the boot code. The line from Ben's
recommendation above worked nicely for that purpose:
chroot /target2 /sbin/silo -f
which in my case was
chroot /mnt /sbin/silo -f
Regards
Raoul Volpe
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