[mythtv-users] Clone MythTV HDD

[Johnny]

>
> This weekend I cloned a drive with dd:
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
>
> It took about 4 hours to do a 250 GB drive. Mine wouldn't boot either
> right after the clone. I opened up gparted and marked the partition as
> active. Then it booted fine. I don't know why bit for bit clone
> doesn't have the active flag, but setting it in gparted fixed it for
> me.
>

Actually I think that "active" is windows lingo. I think it gparted it
is the "boot" flag that you want to set. Either way you get the idea.