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#1 (**permalink**) 02-15-2008, 11:49 AM

I ghost a SCO Unix harddisk to a new harddisk, but I cannot bootup the
machine with that new harddisk. Here are the steps I ghost the
harddisk:

1. Connect the SCO Unix harddisk and the new harddisk. The new
harddisk acts as the slave.
2. Boot the machine and use fdisk to partition the new harddisk into
two parts: UNIX and DOS. The UNIX partition has the same size as the
original harddisk. This partition is activated.
3. Use the ghost 'Partition to Partition' to copy the content of
original harddisk to the DOS partition of the new harddisk.
4. Use the ghost 'Partition to Partition' to copy the DOS partition of
the new harddisk to its UNIX partition.
5. Disconnect the original harddisk and use the new harddisk as the
master.
6. Boot the machine.
7. The machine hang after the BIOS displays the hardware information.
No more message comes out.

It seems that the machine cannot boot by the OS, but I DID set 'boot
up by C:' in the BIOS. Do I miss some steps? or I did something wrong?
Please advice.

#2 (**permalink**) 02-15-2008, 11:49 AM

In article <ff12ffde.0401271809.656fa917@posting.google.com >,
Manda Tang <mntang2@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I ghost a SCO Unix harddisk to a new harddisk, but I cannot bootup the
>machine with that new harddisk. Here are the steps I ghost the
>harddisk:
>
>1. Connect the SCO Unix harddisk and the new harddisk. The new
>harddisk acts as the slave.
>2. Boot the machine and use fdisk to partition the new harddisk into
>two parts: UNIX and DOS. The UNIX partition has the same size as the
>original harddisk. This partition is activated.
>3. Use the ghost 'Partition to Partition' to copy the content of
>original harddisk to the DOS partition of the new harddisk.
>4. Use the ghost 'Partition to Partition' to copy the DOS partition of
>the new harddisk to its UNIX partition.
>5. Disconnect the original harddisk and use the new harddisk as the
>master.
>6. Boot the machine.
>7. The machine hang after the BIOS displays the hardware information.
>No more message comes out.
>
>It seems that the machine cannot boot by the OS, but I DID set 'boot
>up by C:' in the BIOS. Do I miss some steps? or I did something wrong?
>Please advice.

At the least, you also need to put masterboot on the new drive:

dd if=/etc/masterboot of=/dev/hdx0

where hdx0 is the whole-drive device for your new drive.

John
--
John DuBois spcecdt@armory.com KC6QKZ/AE http://www.armory.com/~spcecdt/

#3 (**permalink**) 02-15-2008, 11:53 AM

On 29 Jan 2004 01:44:19 GMT, spcecdt@deeptht.armory.com (John DuBois)
wrote:

>In article <ff12ffde.0401271809.656fa917@posting.google.com >,
>Manda Tang <mntang2@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>I ghost a SCO Unix harddisk to a new harddisk, but I cannot bootup the
>>machine with that new harddisk. Here are the steps I ghost the
>>harddisk:
>>
>>1. Connect the SCO Unix harddisk and the new harddisk. The new
>>harddisk acts as the slave.
>>2. Boot the machine and use fdisk to partition the new harddisk into
>>two parts: UNIX and DOS. The UNIX partition has the same size as the
>>original harddisk. This partition is activated.
>>3. Use the ghost 'Partition to Partition' to copy the content of
>>original harddisk to the DOS partition of the new harddisk.
>>4. Use the ghost 'Partition to Partition' to copy the DOS partition of
>>the new harddisk to its UNIX partition.
>>5. Disconnect the original harddisk and use the new harddisk as the
>>master.
>>6. Boot the machine.
>>7. The machine hang after the BIOS displays the hardware information.
>>No more message comes out.
>>
>>It seems that the machine cannot boot by the OS, but I DID set 'boot
>>up by C:' in the BIOS. Do I miss some steps? or I did something wrong?
>>Please advice.
>
>At the least, you also need to put masterboot on the new drive:
>
> dd if=/etc/masterboot of=/dev/hdx0
>
>where hdx0 is the whole-drive device for your new drive.
>
> John
>--
>John DuBois spcecdt@armory.com KC6QKZ/AE http://www.armory.com/~spcecdt/

When all else fails I've found that booting from a DOS floppy and
running fdisk /mbr will *sometimes* work, too.

DDinAZ

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