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Octane Boot Issues - Tephran - 03-18-2020

The good idea fairy has struck me!

Someone posted a link to the 300G drives on ebay of which I bought a couple and had them shipped in.

When I initially installed the current drive into my octane I didn't have the correct length of screws, 6/32 x 3/8", I took this time to put the correct screws in. At the same time I installed the 300g drive in hopes of doing a dump onto rather than doing a full blown install all over again.

When booting the octane, I noticed it was taking far too long. Attached is the error on the console, I'm hoping there's an easy fix rather than going the install route.

   

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RE: Octane Boot Issues - vishnu - 03-20-2020

So wait, you're saying you created the new disk using dd and are trying to boot it? Unless the disk you dd-ed from is the same size (preferably the exact same disk from the same manufacturer), it won't work. You need to use Ian's disk cloning procedure instead, link:

http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/disksfiles.html#CLONE

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RE: Octane Boot Issues - Tephran - 03-20-2020

(03-20-2020, 03:45 AM)vishnu Wrote:  So wait, you're saying you created the new disk using dd and are trying to boot it? Unless the disk you dd-ed from is the same size (preferably the exact same disk from the same manufacturer), it won't work. You need to use Ian's disk cloning procedure instead, link:

http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/disksfiles.html#CLONE

I was attempting to follow this guide:

http://www.cspry.co.uk/computing/Indy_admin/Indy_backup.html

However, my octane won't even boot now even before I attempted to do anything other than reseating the drive. The only other thing that was done was the installation of the target drive I was going to do the xfsdump to.

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