I'd be grateful for any help anyone can find time to give!
I'm getting ready to upgrade my system from sarge to etch. I boot from
an IDE drive and keep /home and /var on SCSI disk. My sarge install is
presently using the 2.6.8-4-686-smp linux-image. Before I get into the actual
upgrade I wanted to make a backup of the system drive.
I've made the backup copy of the system drive using
(cd / && tar clf - .)|(cd /mnt/hde2 && tar xfp -)
(cd /boot && tar clf - .)|(cd /mnt/hde1 && tar xfp -)
the target hard drive being attached to a PCI IDE card which makes it
hde in this situation.
When I move this drive the primary master and try to boot
from this target drive the grub menu comes up and it starts but I get this a
pivot_root error:
pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
Things I've tried:
1. Checking to see if /dev/console exists and has the right permissions,
it does:
#ls -al /dev/console
crw------- 1 root tty 5, 1 Apr 14 14:59 /dev/console
2. Booting from a Debian 4 CD in rescue mode, mounting hda1 (/boot) and
hda2 (/) on /mnt, chrooting to this and trying
#grub-install /dev/hda
/dev/hda: Not found or not a block device
3. Same as two but with these additional commands:
#mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
#mount -o bind -t proc /proc /mnt/proc
#grub-install /dev/hda
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc does not have and corresponding BIOS
drive.
4. Same as three but editing the (hd0) line in /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
lots of grub output but ends in "Error 22: No such partition"
4. Same as three but going through the grub shell
grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd)
says it finishes successfully but a reboot results in the root_pivot
error again.
fstab and mtab are identical to the functioning drive. The only e2labels
on the backup drive are appropriately "/" and "/boot".
I'm stumped - can anyone suggest anything else?
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