No boot after cloning (SOLVED)

[larbac]

Hi again

Another problem

I have 3 disks on my computer: 1x500GB (with XP), 1x200 (data storage) and 1x250gb (Kubuntu).
I'm using Kubuntu for the last 6 months and I don't really need XP any mora, so I cloned my 250gb disk to the 500gb disk with the Kubuntu LiveCD and with Gparted. Everything was right, but now (I was expecting this ) when I try to boot from the 500gb disk, it can't find any boot system.
I think I have to change something in GRUB, yes?? What should I change??

Thank you again

[dibl]

Re: No boot after cloning

Depending on what the objective of this maneuver is, I think you need Section 4 "Menu List" of Qqmike's guide here:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3081671.0


However, I must say I'm confused. Why in the heck do you need two identical Kubuntu system installations? Are you trying to move to using the 250G drive in order to discontinue booting the system on the 500G drive?

[Guest]

Re: No boot after cloning

This might be due to the different (kernel?) hard drive order detection. I had a similar issue when dist-upgraded my home system from 8.10 to 9.04. I have 3 drives - 2 PATA and one SATA. Before upgrading the order was:
/dev/sda - PATA master *
/dev/sdb - PATA slave
/dev/sdc - SATA
After the upgrade it became:
/dev/sda - SATA
/dev/sdb - PATA master *
/dev/sdc - PATA slave
So I had to update /etc/fstab to reflect the new order (replaced sda* with sdb*, etc).

[larbac]

Re: No boot after cloning

Depending on what the objective of this maneuver is, I think you need Section 4 "Menu List" of Qqmike's guide here:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3081671.0


However, I must say I'm confused. Why in the heck do you need two identical Kubuntu system installations? Are you trying to move to using the 250G drive in order to discontinue booting the system on the 500G drive?

Hi

I want to start using the 500gb disk, because it's more fast e and I don't have enough space at the 250gb.
And the 250gb will be for data storage. I just want to 1 instalation of Kubuntu eheheheh

[Qqmike]

Re: No boot after cloning

I haven't really cloned drives, except to clone a live flash drive to an identical flash drive (same size GBs). When you clone a 250 to a 500 GB drive, the 500 GB drive may think it is only 250 GB (based on the 250 GB filesystem image placed on the 500). It happens. It happens when using dd to clone. I don't know about when Partimage is used (which I think GParted now uses; it used to use dd).
Just by reading my post thus far, you can appreciate the issues.
AwesomeMachine addresses this subject in his how-to. Here's my brief & general how-to where I reference AwesomeMachine's now classic article (and which you may wish to pursue, or figure out how to use Partimage, or try to fix the bootloader thing and see how your present clone is working):

dd Command
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3090824.0
(Reply #2 illustrates simple cloning of one drive to an identical-sized drive.)

[larbac]

Re: No boot after cloning (SOLVED)

Thanks for the replies.
I managed to solve the problem with this hint:

Just boot into your Ubuntu CD, open up a terminal and type:

sudo grub

then type:

find /boot/grub/stage1

Whatever that returns, etc..(hd0) or (hd1),whatever,you will want to enter that with the next command. So if it returns (hd0), then type:

root (hd0,0)

then type:

setup (hd0)

And finally type:

quit

To Qqmike: the clone of 250gb to 500gb went well. The system recognizes all the space available. I used Gparted.