Hi, unfortunately, the chroot environment was not so helpfull as generating a new initial ram disk with the standard tool (yaird) relies on the current environment. And when booting with knoppix, this was almost but not exactly the same.
But I could solve the issue by building the intial ram disk manually using gzip + cpio. Thanks Reiner > On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:56:02 +0100 > > Reiner Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > after moving the contents of my root partition to another host, > > the root partition ist not found while booting. > > > > To do the "move", I copied the files using tar and changed > > the partition name in /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst. > > Previously, root was on /dv/hda6 (an IDE disk) and now it is on /dev/sda5 > > (a SATA disk). > > > > Now I have the following problerm while booting. > > The kernel is loaded from the correct device but could not access to the > > root device. An extract from the messages: > > Waiting 1 seconds for /sys/bloc/hda/dev/hda6 > > mount: special device /dev/sda6 does not exists > > Switching root... > > /usr/lib/yaird/exec/run_init: current directory on the same filesystem > > as root: Success > > > > I am running Debian testing. > > > > It seems to be an issue with the initial ram disk prepared by yaird. > > When extracting the initial ram disk, in the init file, there are > > multiple occurences of the old partition name hda6. > > I think your diagnosis is correct. > > > What is the best practice to get the host booting? > > Probably, I need to create a new inital ram disk, how to do this in this > > environment? > > boot a rescue cd (knoppix etc) and chroot into your new "moved" root. Then > I think you can dpkg-reconfigure the kernel. depending on your setup, > you'll likely have to do lots of mounting within your chroot first. > > hth > > A > > > Cheers, > > Reiner > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Reiner B. Nix IT-Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.macd.com Tel.: +49 (0)241 44597-23 Macdonald Associates GmbH Fax : +49 (0)241 44597-10 Lothringer Str. 52, D-52070 Aachen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
