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Hi, i have two usb sticks one at 8GB and one at 2GB. on my 8GB there is a 1.1GB of files that i need to clone to get my 2GB to work and boot as my 8GB. The biggest problem is how do i clone MBR? i know how to do it with dd but not when there is two different sizes.
if this is the problem. all i get at boot is GRUB nothing more, no menu or grub config screen. only the text "grub".
8GB usb stick with debian(1.1GB)
2GB usb stick empty
what i have done.
dd + no=trunc
dd files to image.dd
dd mbr
changed partition tables
dd only partition 1
and so on...
Last edited by eviltoaster; 03-17-2010 at 01:29 AM.
That i reduced first partition to 2GB and it failed and after that 1.5GB and it failed ... all i got at boot is grub nothing more only thoese four letters.
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