How to replace a hard drive...

[Peter King]

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 09:18:06AM -0400, Peter King wrote:
 
> > So here's the second question. Is there a more sensible/straightforward way to reproduce
> > one disk onto another of larger size?
> 
> The consensus seems to be: partition the new disk; copy over files (versions using cpio,
> tar, and rsync have been mentioned); mount the new disk and chroot into it to grub-install.

The struggle continues. Got a fresh new shiny disk, and I partitioned it and installed the
same filesystems as the current disk: /dev/sda1 for /boot [ext2], sda2 for swap, sda3 for /
[ext3]. Mounted the boot and root partitions separately and used rsync -avHx SOURCE/ DEST/
to copy everything over exactly -- thanks to Lennart for the suggestion. Then I replaced
the old disk with the almost-mirror-image new disk, booted from a USB stick, chrooted into
the new disk, and installed grub manually. All seemed to go well. Reboot, and the new disk
is seen by the BIOS; it finds grub on the MBR and loads it; I select a kernel and start to
boot up -- by this time I'm starting to think it will work -- and then, after it correctly
finds my keyboard, it just, well, stops. Nothing. No drive activity, no indication of life.

Replacing the old disk I see that after finding a keyboard it then loads /sys, and calls for
udev. Perhaps the problem is there.

What went wrong? Any idea? Seems as though grub is fine. As far as I can tell the new disk
is the mirror-image of the image, except with respect to the installation of grub, though.

Any suggestions or ideas welcome.

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