How to replace a hard drive...

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu May 12 18:44:16 UTC 2011


On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 01:45:38PM -0400, Peter King wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:59:03PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> > Do you have UUID statements in grub.cfg and /etc/fstab?
> > 
> > If so, those would need to be updated to match your new filesystems.
> 
> My grub.conf just uses the usual (relative) addressing scheme:
> 
> 	default 0
> 	timeout 10
> 	splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> 
> 	title gentoo-2.6.36r8
> 	root (hd0,0)
> 	kernel /boot/gentoo-2.6.36r8 root=/dev/sda3
> 
> 	title gentoo-2.6.36r6
> 	root (hd0,0)
> 	kernel /boot/gentoo-2.6.36r6 root=/dev/sda3
> 
> This works on the old disk, and, as noted, the new disk does seem to
> get as far as recognizing the keyboard, which is after finding disks
> but right before creating /sys, then running udev, then the various
> initscripts (initializing swap, procfs, framebuffer, and so on)...

Can you boot single user mode?

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