Re: [cobalt-users] Norton Ghost and Coping Hard drive

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, chefcool wrote:

> I succsefully copied a RAQ3 hard disk using Norton
> Ghost. However when I try to boot the disk I get a
> "Kernel Panic: No init found" message.
> I checked the hard disk's files and everything seems
> in order and all the files present.

This is sometimes a hint you are mounting the wrong partition as root,
make sure they are in *exactlly* the same order they were on the old
drive, during boot, the kernel identifies the root partition only by what
partition number it is...

I'd seen folks have problems using ghost with linux btw, you do have to
help it a bit...

>  Anyone give me some tips on using Norton Ghost to
> make an image of the hard disk that will boot?
> Does it have something to do with MBR record? I read
> some other posts in the archives that show success

It's generally better to use linux to make linux disks ;0
If you are making an exact image of the whole disk you won't have a
 problem, but this assumes it's the same size,(and that the new disk has
no bad sectors, since you aren't generating a flaw map)  otherwise you
have to get the partitions right, and the
boot flag, and the order....

Personally , i'd use a boot/tool floppy, boot linux from it, and
create/copy the disk from there using standard tools...

gsh