Sorry to be a pain with this, but I want to try one more time for
help. I recently copied my file system over to a new bigger disk, but I
can't boot to the new disk. Question and hypothesis first, explanation
following.
I went nuts partitioning the new disk. I was mostly just
experimenting. Many will think I have gone needlessly overboard. I won't
disagree. The old disk has two partitions, one being swap. The new disk
has a partition for just about everything. These directories all live on
their own partitions:
/usr
/usr/local
/var
/home
/etc
/bin
/tmp
/lib
I'm thinking now that the boot sequence needs something from /etc,
/bin or /lib that it can't find 'cause it hasn't been mounted yet (see
below). That's why I am wondering if anyone can tell me what files,
configuration, executable or otherwise are essential for booting the system.
I'd be happy to RTFM if someone can tell me what manual I should be
reading. I had a look at the howto index. The section on the boot sequence
in the boot disk howto gave some insights but not enough. Can't think where
else to look for info. Steps taken, explanation and things tried follows.
Before anyone asks, the copy was not the problem. I used a tar
mostly and cpio for the device files once I discovered that tar was not
going to work. I copied directory by directory and for each directory under
/, I did 'ls -lAFR > file' where file was either oldfs or newfs. I then did
a diff on the two files. The only differences were things like number of
used blocks, date stamps and a ton of pairs of directory names because one
of each pair was prefixed with /mnt. There were no differences (after a few
tries :-)) in the mode bits nor the ownership.
Other steps taken:
1) copied kernel image to floppy using instructions for compiling
kernel found in the source tree;
2) edited fstab and lilo.conf(even though I wasn't counting
on booting from the hard drive right off the bat);
3) made the new drive master;
4) changed the cmos configuration (not really necessary);
When let 'er rip, I only get as far as this message in the boot
sequence:
VFS: root partition (ext2 filesystem) mounted read-only.
If I boot from the old drive, the next message is :
INIT: something else that flashes by too quickly to be read.
I tried copying the contents of /bin and /etc to root partition instead of
having them on their own partitions, but that didn't help. Anyway, init is
in /sbin which is on the root partition anyway. Should I have /lib on the
root partition too ?
Thanks for any more help.
Perplexed,
Gerald
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