On 11/6/07, Verner Kjærsgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tirsdag 06 november 2007 10:01 skrev Matthew Stringer: > > Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > > > - reported by a friend of mine, when cloning (ghosting) a 10.3 disk in > > > its entirety, the cloned disk will not boot due to the serial numbers of > > > the cloned disk doesn't match the serial of the original disk. > > > > > > - apparently this serial is written somewhere in the conf files of GRUB. > > > > > > - I've not seen this as I've not been to his place (quite far from here, > > > trying to solve the matter through e-mail...), can this be true?? > > > > > > - I mean, really? :-) > > > > Sort of > > > > I ran into this problem > > > > Instead of using something like /dev/sda2 as the root device in grub it > > has /disk/id-by-xxxxxxx or similar which it uses to identify the hard > > drive, so if this changes it screws up the initrd, if you edit the boot > > loader and create a new initrd it works fine from the rescue console. > > > > Not sure why it changed. > > > THANKS to all!!
One of guys hit this issue too. I don't know what he had to fix in grub's menu, but I know the final fix wa in /etc/fstab, so don't forget to have your friend update that as well. We actually do a lot of cloning of our lab machines. We edited the grub/fstab fields to go back to /dev/sda, etc. prior to making the clone. Our machines are similar enough that it works for us. If there is a better way, we're all ears. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
