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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Len Sorensen
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