[ale] ghost problems

[Jeff Hubbs]

Just a moment - does LILO contain any disk geometry information?  If the
disk were Ghosted and the MBR went with the Ghost image, wouldn't the disk
geometry info be all wrong if LILO suddenly got moved to a differently-sized
drive?

Personally, I think the road to hell is paved with Ghost...

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Forsell [mailto:cforsell at roman.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 12:08 PM
> To: hirsch at zapmedia.com
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] ghost problems
> 
> 
> I was able to get to Lilo and run it using -V -C (and the path to
> Lilo.conf), but it still was not happy.  (I don't know how to 
> handle device
> 0X0102).
> 
> How about plan 2...
> 
> If I were to reinstall the 440 meg drive as it was and 
> install the 15 gig as
> a second drive, then move /var and a few other directories 
> over, that should
> solve the issue... Does this sound like a viable solution?
> 
> (yes, I am a newbie)
> 
> Can I install the old drive and run YAST to define the 
> partitions on the new
> drive?  What is the best way to add a drive?
> 
> Thanks for your help!  I deeply appreciate your assistance.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hirsch at zapmedia.com <hirsch at zapmedia.com>
> To: Carl Forsell <cforsell at roman.net>
> Cc: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
> Date: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 11:24 AM
> Subject: [ale] ghost problems
> 
> 
> >Carl Forsell writes:
> > > We have a customer who is running SeSE 6.4 on their 
> Apache server.  We
> > > ghosted their 440 meg drive to a 15 gig drive.  All went 
> well untill we
> > > rebooted with the new drive.  Lilo is not happy!  We boot 
> off the new
> drive
> > > and get to a li prompt and freeze.
> > >
> > > I have booted with a rescue disk and we can see the new 
> drive and have
> > > verified the partitions are intact.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> >
> >Did you tried rerunning lilo on the new disk?  I wouldn't trust ghost
> >to copy the lilo installation.  If you didn't do it, just 
> running lilo
> >might work.
> >
> >Also, did you check that the boot image is in the first gig 
> of the new
> >disk?  Some Bioses require that.  Mostly older ones.
> >
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