I seems if you move a openSuse 11.1 hard disk to another computer, it starts booting up, hangs for a bit, and then switches to black and white console and gives the message: Could not find /dev/disk/by-id/ata_WDC_WD800JB-OOJJCO_WD-WMAM bla bla bla.
If you wait a bit, it will start a bash shell. It obviously found the disk and booted something. You can then do a ls command, change directories etc., but you can't do much. If you take the disk back to the computer on which you made the installation, it boots up fine. Searching for the first part of the error string "Could not find /dev/disk/by-id/" finds several folks having the same problem moving or duplicating openSuse Installations. Most of them had to resort to booting the install CD and repairing or reinstalling (Beginning to sound a little like Windows??). A customer of mine runs some flavor of a SuSE server in their back room and therefore would like to deploy openSuse based systems in one of their industrial control system products. However, if a system located in Rusia, Japan or even Alabama should have a disk failure and need a new disk, or should the main board die, having to make the new disk on the target hardware would be a pain. Has anyone on this list encountered this problem? Is there a simple way to reconfigure something and get openSuSE to run on multiple machines? Do you think not being able to run on any hardware other than the installation hardware is a good idea? Wayne _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
