How to replace a hard drive...

[Peter King]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 05:17:51PM -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote:
 
> Recent Linux distros seem to want to use UUID strings in /etc/fstab to refer 
> to the drives. Its all well and good until you change a partition or hard 
> drive after which you find it fails to boot properly. Check your /etc/fstab 
> file to see if it is using uuid strings rather than /dev/sdaN type partition 
> specifiers.

Gentoo still permits the old specifications and, since they work in the old
grub.conf (on the old disk), they should work in the new. Or so one would 
think.

> If it was a problem with /etc/fstab you would normally see an error message 
> stating something to the effect that it was unable to mount the (root) file 
> system. Use Alt-Fn keys to see if one of the other console windows has any 
> additional information displayed as to why the boot process ground to a halt.

Can't get to virtual consoles.

Can't boot into single-user mode.

Can't get any joy from fooling with grub command-line options at boot.

Apparently it doesn't get to load /sbin/init -- or at least it doesn't help to
change it to busybox or something else.

It *seems* like it gags at loading /sys, before the rootfs gets loaded at all.

There are days like these...

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