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

[bubba]

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!

 

[Tiger]

Check me on this but I don't think Ghost supports ext3 or reiser partitions.

 

[Nothinman]

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.

 

[bubba]

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.

 

[bubba]

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.

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...

 

[CplHicks]

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).

 

[bubba]

For anyone who is interested, I found the answer:

http://service2.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/2001110807415125

Hope it helps someone else!

 

[bubba]

Originally posted by: bubba
For anyone who is interested, I found the answer:

http://service2.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/2001110807415125

Hope it helps someone else!

Oh yeah, after that I had to boot off of a floppy and do a "grub-install /dev/hda" as well.

 

[Tiger]

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.

 

[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

 

[bubba]

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

Well, I know you read it Nothinman. You get a gold star for reading comprehension!

 

[Tiger]

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).

I was responding to this post in the thread. Who read the entire thread?