On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 04:30:28PM +0100, Raffaele BELARDI 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.
Do you have a reference to your root partition on /etc/default/grub that you forgot to update before running grub-mkconfig? > 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? > > thanks, > > raffaele -- Fernando Rodriguez
