[mythtv-users] What would happen if I cloned a working system disk and put it in another system?

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Craig Huff <huffcslists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like it is at least worth an attempt.
>
> I had thought about using dd, but I can't recall now why I thought
> there would be a problem with it -- target disk smaller than source
> disk, perhaps?
>
That will be a problem.  I generally have done this method when the
target was larger than the source.

>
> All the disks under consideration are plain old IDE, so no worries about SCSI.
>
> Calvin- I haven't looked at the man page yet, but I'm guessing
> grub-install takes care of the MBR issue?  Also, thanks for the
> pointer about rebuilding the initrd after booting with a rescue disk.
>
I believe most of the time the dd will be enough.

John