On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.bela...@st.com> wrote: > > I want to move the main disk contents (hda, PATA) to another, larger > disk (sda, SATA). > > hda contains 4 ext3 partitions (root, home, data, swap). > I created 4 ext3 partitions on sda and copied the data over from the > corresponding hda partitions using 'cp -ax'. > Then I chroot into sda1, 'grub-install /dev/sda', grub-mkconfig and edit > fstab to use sda instead of hda. > Reboot, from the non-UEFI bios change the disk boot order and try to > boot from sda. > grub from the sda starts, loads the kernel from sda1, the kernel finds > the root file system and mounts it RO but then the process stops at the > end of the kernel boot. No kernel panic, just hangs there with the last > kernel message before openrc. Openrc is not started. > > What might I be missing?
Perhaps some permissions and special files. I would use rsync for such a task: rsync -Pvas /source/directory/ /target/directory/ I've used that commend in the past for exactly the same motives as you. It works; also, it's faster I think. Regards. -- Dr. Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de Carrera Asociado C Departamento de Matemáticas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
