That did the trick. Many thanks Florian.
*** This E-Mail has been checked by MAILsweeper *** On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:18:39PM +1100, BAKER, Craig wrote: > Greetings, > We have just added a Shark DASD subsystem to our z800 and we now want to move our >ThinkBlue64 Linux System to it from our existing DASD. The approach that I took was >to backup the filesystem using tar then restore it to the new DASD. Then I updated >zipl.conf on the new DASD and ran zipl against it. > When I boot from the new DASD it gets past recognising the new DASD and mounts the >root filesystem then I get "Kernel Panic: unable to load init try passing init= to >the kernel." "rsync -avx --delete / /new_dasd" might also be a good way to copy things. This copy stops at mount point boundaries. > > So what else do I need to do to make this work? To copy a root partition you might have to edit /etc/fstab and /etc/zipl.conf in the new system. I suspect you are not using an initrd to boot, that could also need to be modified. greetings, Florian La Roche > > Thanks in advance > > Craig Baker > > > ********************************************************************** > This e-mail message (along with any attachments) is intended only for > the named addressee and may contain information that is confidential > or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby > notified that any dissemination, copying or use of any of the > information is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail message > in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail and delete all > copies of the original message and attachments. > ********************************************************************** > > *** This E-Mail has been checked for viruses *** ********************************************************************** This e-mail message (along with any attachments) is intended only for the named addressee and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copying or use of any of the information is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of the original message and attachments. ********************************************************************** *** This E-Mail has been checked for viruses ***
