On Sun, May 11, 2014, at 06:04 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

> On Sun, 11 May 2014 11:46:25 +0300

> Itay <deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm> wrote:

>

> > Hi

> >

> >

> >

> > Old disk was 300GB and failing. New is 1TB.

> >

> > I replaced the old harddrive and made few steps to copy the system

> > back to the new drive (see below).

> >

> > Obviously I missed something as the system does not boot. BIOS
comes

> > up alright.

>

> Just for fun in a ten minute diagnostic test that could shed light on

> the situation, why don't you boot a live CD, hopefully one with a

> kernel somewhat similar to the one on your new harddrive, mount the
hard

> drive root partition somewhere, chroot to that mount, and then run

> mount -a. I bet you'd get a lot of information.

>



Well, right.  Here is some of the output (manually typed)



mount point /proc does not exist [Note: similar errors for few more
missing mount points such as /usr/local, /cache]

special device /dev/sda1 does not exist  [Note: that's the would be
/boot partition]

special device /dev/mapper/vg-home does not exist [Note: would-be /home
reside on a Logical Volume vg/home]

[Same error for the other file trees that reside on Logical Volumes]



Note that I did not copy the /dev file tree from the old installation
-- my understanding was that it will be repopulated by the system upon
the first reboot with the new drive.

Was I wrong?



> If all of the above works right, then I'd imagine your problem is
either

> in your bootloader or your kernel. If some of the above fails, that

> tells you where to apply your Troubleshooting Foo.

>

> HTH,

>

> SteveT

>



I guess the output of mount above shows that there is a problem with
the file system(s) and devices.

Nevertheless, I also believe that I have problems with the bootloader.

See reply to a different post on this thread.



Many thanks,

Itay





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