> -----Original Message----- > From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19 September 2005 14:39 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk > > > Well I have carried out the procedure outlined in your > message, but I have had > some problems. > When booting the new disc it always failed with a reiserfs > problem (I once > rebuilt the tree), after 3 attempts I still had errors so I > formated the > partition with ext2, copied all the files and rebooted. IT WORKED.
Which of the different procedures did you try. Did you run fsck.reiserfs from a LiveCD or your old disk to see if some corruption occurred during the data transfer? (I guess it's too late now). > The only error I have detected is during boot I get a warning > "unable to open > an initial console", the screen freezes until x is started. > This doesn't seem to be a big problem but I would like to fix > it -- any > ideas???? Not entirely sure - others may want to advise better - but are you running devfs? It seems that this is an error thrown up when devices are not recognised. This would make some sense, after all this is a new device. With udev all you should do is restart udev and the new device parameters would be recognised. That should happen during a reboot unless you have configured your machine to cache the device db? Can you find your /dev/console and does it have the same sylinks and access rights as your old disk installation? I'm not at my Linux machine now so I can't check myself. Finally, reset your BIOS before a reboot if you have disconnected/reconnected drives, to recognise the new devices and their boot order. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
