Tuesday 21 December 2004 18:12, You wrote:
> I am trying to move my root disk from a big disk to a smaller one.  The new
> root disk won't reboot.  Does anyone have suggestions?

try this changes:

> Here is what I did:
>
>    Shut down my target system
>    From a second system, CP LINK to the old root system and the new root
>    disk
>    dasdfmt -b 4096 -v -f /dev/dasdd
>    fdasd -a -b 4096 /dev/dasdd
>    mke2fs -j -b 4096 /dev/dasdd1
>    mount old root system as /oldroot
>    mount new disk as /mnt
>    cp --preserve=all --recursive /oldroot/* /mnt/
>    cd /mnt/etc
>    Create the zipl.ths.conf file below.

chroot /mnt
zipl -c /etc/zipl.ths.conf
exit

>    cd /
>    umount /mnt
>    umount /oldroot
>    CP DET the two minidisks
>    Modify the directory of the targe system to swap the addresses of the
>    old and new root disks.
>    Boot the target system - Program check loop

> /etc/zipl.ths.conf:
>
> # Generated by YaST2
> [defaultboot]
> default=ipl
>
> [ipl]

target=/boot/zipl
image=/boot/kernel/image
parameters="dasd=201-20F root=/dev/dasda1 noinitrd"



bye,

--
Gian

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