I still think you need to partition the new drive first, then dd the individual partitions.
Addresses within partitions are normally handled as sector offsets, but booting and locating the start/extent of partitions don't always. The fdisk format on PCs is ancient and predates SCSI (and IDE drives that pretend to be SCSI). It encodes addresses in terms of sector/head/cylinder, as well as storing block offset information. Unless the old and new drives are identical geometry (for example, the same make and model) then any code that tries to use physical addressing based on geometry is going to screw up if the fdisk table does not match the drive... Regards, DigbyT On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 04:54:57PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > > boots into a panic. Here's the last 5 lines: > > [28.856347] ReiserFS: sda3: found reiserfs format > "3.6" with standard journal > [31.560835] ReiserFS: sda3: warning: sh-2029: reiserfs > read_bitmaps: bitmap bitlock(#14057372) reading failed > [31.663418] UDF-fs: No partition found (1) > [31.663466] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to > mount root fs on unknown-block(8,3) > [31.663493] > > After dd'ing I compared both drives w/fdisk and they > were identical except for the device names, of course. > I *did* update fstab and grub.conf and ran > grub-install w/o error. Don't know why it was looking > for a UDF fs. > > one thing I noticed though, the SATA drive is about 3M > smaller than the ATA. > -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
