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Title: boot restore question
Post by: cjensen on February 18, 2004, 05:13:18 AM

Hello,

I have a SME Server v6 (happens to be my devel box) in which I just upgraded to a larger HD.  The drive was ghost imaged with the same size partitions for boot and swap and allowed to expand the other to fill the remaining space.

Everything came over fine... But, I have to boot from the repair floppy from the original install.  The machine will boot to "loading SME ...." and stop, unless I boot from the floppy, then all is well.

What may I do to restore my boot image to allow the boot to occur without the floppy?

TIA

Cjensen

Title: It may not boot from the larger CD ...
Post by: Mister Smith on February 18, 2004, 06:10:47 AM

I ran into this exact problem rehabilitating an old Gateway Pentium Pro/200 with a 120-gig hard drive ... even with the latest BIOS it will recognize the drive but not boot from it ... so I used Nero Burning Rom to create a bootable CD from the floppy disk ... not *truly* satisfactory but it boots much faster from CD than floppy.

Title: boot restore question
Post by: smeghead on February 18, 2004, 01:32:30 PM

See: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/1999021909463125?Open&src=&docid=2000033111503625&nsf=ghost.nsf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=

You need to login using the boot disk and then rerun lilo to reinitialise the its partition map for the new drive parameters.

Title: boot restore question
Post by: cjensen on February 18, 2004, 06:40:41 PM

Thank you Smeghead and Mister Smith.

Here is what I had to do to fix.

As Smeghead advised, lilo was messed up. so initially I ran lilo after booting from the boot floppy.  It would still not complete the boot but would hang at the lilo prompt with "Fatal: No images have been defined."

I compared the /etc/lilo.conf file to another SME box and noticed that after the install, the line 'default=vmlinuz' was different than another working SME box which was 'default=Mitel-SME-up'.  Changing this (with the template), expanding, and then running lilo again fixed the issue!  I can now boot WITHOUT a floppy...

I hope this may be helpful to anyone else with this issue.  Mister Smith, you may be able to boot without the CD if this is your issue as well :-)

Thanks again for the responses.

Craig Jensen

Title: boot restore question
Post by: raem on August 18, 2004, 11:00:16 AM

Thanks Craig
I put together this HOWTO based on your post
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/rmitchell/smeserver/howto/Cloning%20drive%20with%20Ghost%20lilo.conf%20fix%20HOWTO%20for%20sme%20server.htm