How to replace a hard drive...

[Burhan Hanoglu]

Hi Peter,

Does the box hang at that time? Please try pressing ALT+F1, ALT+F2, and so on to see if it switches between terminals and if there is any info on any of the terminals.

Regards,
Burhan

--- On Thu, 5/12/11, Peter King <peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Peter King <peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: How to replace a hard drive...
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Received: Thursday, May 12, 2011, 2:51 PM
> Things just get curiouser and
> curiouser.
> 
> I can boot from Sysresccd with the option "boot from an
> existing 32/64 bit Linux
> system on disk" and, apart from a hiccup because the kernel
> on Sysresccd is older
> than my kernel, it all loads without any problem. The
> existing installation, by the
> way, is 64-bit kernel/userland.
> 
> Having gotten up and running in this fashion, I decided to
> re-install grub, and again 
> to do so manually in the standard way:
>    #grub --no-floppy
>    grub> root (hd0,0) 
>    <-- location of /boot, a.k.a.
> /dev/sda1
>    grub> setup (hd0)     
> <-- install grub to MBR of /dev/sda
>    grub> quit
> It all seemed to work just fine. The grub.conf was
> unaltered, putting boot at (hd0,0)
> -- which, confusingly, is written "root (hd0,0)" like above
> -- and then identifying the
> location of the rootfs at /dev/sda3. This is the *exact*
> configuration on the old hard
> disk, which works fine.
> 
> Yet somehow, when things get going, it all stalls and gives
> up after detecting the
> keyboard. Must be a problem handing off to the rootfs
> somehow. But how? Sysresccd can
> find the rootfs with no trouble.
> 
> Right after detecting the keyboard, as far as I can tell
> what happens in order is:
> 
>    * loading /sys
>    * loading debug-fs
>    * running udev
> 
> The natural suspect is /sys. That's as far as I can get.
> But this can't be all that
> odd a situation -- surely others have tried to mirror hard
> drives, and the procedure I
> used seems to be ordinary enough -- so why did it blow up?
> I don't really understand 
> grub, but then again my ignorance hasn't posed any
> difficulties before. Now I really 
> have run out of ideas. Suggestion, even wild ones, would be
> welcome.
> 
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