thanks for your reply.
> i guess that was not what you meant..
mirroring an active root to your new drive fails miserably. why?
because /dev is hidden. but why *must* it fail miserably? i did
propose two solutions.
the error occurs before, not after, the first INIT message, but i see
now that
Package: linux-source-2.6.22
Version: 2.6.22-1
Severity: normal
File: linux-source-2.6.22
summary: you can't boot from a naive mirror anymore. i have a
solution below.
a user who copies to a root partition with rsync (at least with
--one-file-system) will most likely expect it to boot. instead
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