Alan E. Davis writes: > I copied the root (/) partition with the new partition at /dev/sdb5 > mounted as /newroot, using > # cp -ax / /newroot > > I checked that /proc, /dev, and /sys are there, and empty. I recall > there are some other steps necessary.
/dev needs at least the entries console and null, and tty1 for splash things (I think). You could create them like this: mknod c 5 1 /dev/console mknod c 1 3 /dev/null mknod c 4 1 /dev/tty1 Or copy over your original /dev directory (without the stuff udev added) from the old system: mount -o bind / /mnt cp -a /mnt/dev /newroot/ Wonko