On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 03:47:32PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > Thanks, Daniel and Amos, for your suggestions. > However they address the wrong part of my problem. > All my regular files were already copied to the new hard disk and it was > properly set up. > The only problem is to boot from it. > > I successfully set up grub2 to boot from the new disk's boot partition > (a physical partition, not under LVM control). For this purpose, I > modified grub.cfg. > I need to rebuild initrd.img files for all kernels that I have.
update-initramfs -u > > Yedidiah, you questioned my finding that logical volume paths are > hardwired in the initrd images. They are. > The relevant files are: > /scripts/local-top/cryptroot and /conf/param.conf > in the initrd image. > > According to man mkinitramfs, the file which configures the above > is /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf and in practice I see files also > in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d If things don't work, chances are that lookingg there is not the right place. Debian's defalt initrd is a bit largish, but tends to "Just Works[tm]". I recently needed to do a similar migration (also moving the LVM to reside on top of a RAID-1) in a Debian Squeeze system. It turned out that: * I left out some room for a physical /boot partition. It turned out there was no need for it. * It took me a while to figure out why the system won't boot even though I regenerated the initramfs. After much digging in the scripts, in the extracted initrd (gunzip it and extract the cpio with cpio -id), I realized that if I really want to boot from a RAID I better install mdadm (and regenerate initramfs). * Still one of those two disks crashed this morning :-( . -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
