How to replace a hard drive... SOLVED

[Peter King]

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 12:39 -0400, Peter King wrote:
> 
> > the new disk, and installed grub manually. All seemed to go well. Reboot, and the new disk
> > is seen by the BIOS; it finds grub on the MBR and loads it; I select a kernel and start to
> > boot up -- by this time I'm starting to think it will work -- and then, after it correctly
> > finds my keyboard, it just, well, stops. Nothing. No drive activity, no indication of life.

Problem solved. I had mirrored the original drive while it was mounted, rather
than when it was unmounted. Today I booted sysresccd and mirrored it while it
was unmounted and it booted up without any hiccups. I suppose there was some
"live" information in /dev or /sys or /proc or the like that was inconsistent
for a system at bootup, which caused the problem. But that seems to have been
the cause. And here I thought that the advice to copy content while unmounted
was like the advice to wear an antistatic wristband...

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