On May 22, 2013, at 4:14 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote:
> Am 22.05.2013 21:58, schrieb Glenn Eychaner: >> So, I have a CentOS 6 system, and I want to make several clones of it. I'm >> using Clonezilla to clone the drives; that's no problem. But the drive >> UUIDs are driving me up the wall. After cloning, the two drives have the >> same UUID, but I'd like each clone to have different UUIDs so there's no >> possibility of a conflict when I am running diagnostics with two drives >> installed, etc. But when I change the UUID of the /boot or / partition (even >> if I update /etc/fstab), the system won't boot; it GRUBs OK (after I use >> recovery mode to rerun grub-install), but never gets to the 'Welcome to >> CentOS " message. Do I need to "rebless" vmlinuz or initrd or initramfs in >> the /boot partition if I change the drive UUID? > > for the inital boot /etc/fstab is *irrelevant* > logical thinking: if it can read it the partition is already mounted > > * at least GRUB config contains a line like > "root=UUID=b935b5db-0051-4f7f-83ac-6a6651fe0988" Not on my system; CentOS 6 uses grub 0.97, and my grub.conf file doesn't contain any UUIDs that I can find. > * dracut / initramfs contains at least the UUID for /boot > * did yiou try "dracut -f" after the changes? That's probably the problem; I will make another attempt in the morning, if I decide that I care. I may simply decide that I don't care if I have duplicated UUIDs between workstations, if it becomes too much trouble to fix. :-) -G. -- Glenn Eychaner (geycha...@lco.cl) Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
