On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:43:14PM +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been playing with the FS, and I wanted to duplicate an installation. I > formatted some device as ext3, mounted it, and copied into it kernel, bash, > and some other goodies. >
Are you sure you didn't miss something essential? > I fixed the target /etc/fstab and added the corresponding entry into my grub > menu, and the system did not boot caliming that "could'nt mout bucause of > unsupported features". > > A google session lead me to the conclusion that I needed to format the device > with the sparse_super option (and I can do this probably with tunefs). > > The man is not very helpfull, does anyone have more info about this option? > Just wondering. I hope this is not too dumb. How did you create the new fs? Do you use initrd? Are you sure the old initrd should do with the newer installation? How far can you get in the boot process? What distro is it? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
