On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:26:06 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Did you copy /dev/null and /dev/console to the new machine. These > > need to > > exist on the root partition as they are needed before udev starts. > > > > Thanks Neil, > what do you mean by copy? > > When cloning, I transfer a tarball of the root and usr partition. > Doesn't that suffice? > > The only thing which comes to my mind now is that the tarball was > created from > a live root partition.
There's the problem. The live root partition has a devfs mounted on /dev so the contents of /dev on the root filesystem are unavailable. Either use a live CD or bind mount / somewhere and copy that. mount --bind / /mnt/tmp cd /mnt/tmp tar -czf tarball.tgz . -- Neil Bothwick Unable to open TROUSER.ZIP - replace floppy and retry.
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