On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 09:22:37PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > Hello Tzafrir, > Thanks for your war story. > > On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 18:34 +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > update-initramfs -u > > The twist is that I need to boot some kernel to run it. > What I did was: > 1. Leave both disks connected to the PC. > 2. Boot from the old (500GB) disk. > 3. Mount the partitions of the new (2TB) disk on a directory tree > originating in /tmp/new_2T, so that the to-be-root partition is mounted > on it and other partitions are mounted on subdirectories of the > to-be-root. > 4. chroot /tmp/new_2T/ update-initramfs -u -k all -v
You make need to bind-mount /dev and mount /proc and/or /sys inside the chroot. > 5. Reboot - this time into the new (2TB) disk. > 6. Get stuck because it doesn't find the root and swap partitions. > > How did you boot your PC to run update-initramfs? Rescue system. I could use both old and new. -- 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
