Am Samstag, 21. Februar 2009 schrieb John Winters: > John Winters wrote: > [snip] > > I know I'm going to kick myself when someone points out what I've > > forgotten to do, but... > > I still don't know what I hadn't done, but I found a (sort of) way > around it. > > Instead of partitioning the new disc and then copying files I simply did: > > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024k > > and then: > > e2fsck /dev/sdb2 > > and now the slug will boot from the HDD instead of the memory stick. > > I'd still like to know what was going wrong in the first place though. > I've studied various web pages describing the boot sequence and it seems > from the lights that the kernel loaded from flash simply couldn't find > the root partition. Any suggestions as to why would be gratefully > appreciated.
What is in your fstab? If the second way works it sounds like adressing the root via uuid and when you create a new filesystem the uuid differs, while after the dd it is the same. Regards Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
