On Thursday 30 September 2004 23:31, Shaul Karl wrote: > 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? > I wanted to add you your questions and ask: Did you add a boot flag to the partition ? :)
Cheers, Ido -- Rule of Open-Source Programming #1: Don't whine unless you are going to implement it yourself. ================================================================= 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]
