On 8/13/14, Martin G. McCormick mar...@server1.shellworld.net wrote:
I am the one who posted stating that I can't seem to make a
bootable new hard drive for my Linux Squeeze system. It's been
quoted, It ain't what you don't know that will hurt you, but
what you know that just ain't so. I think
Stefan Monnier writes:
One last step may be necessary : update the UUIDs in /etc/fstab and
/boot/grub/grub.cfg, as you created new volumes with new UUIDs instead
of cloning them. Or alternatively, change the UUIDs on the new disk with
tune2fs, mkswap... to match the ones on the old disk.
I am the one who posted stating that I can't seem to make a
bootable new hard drive for my Linux Squeeze system. It's been
quoted, It ain't what you don't know that will hurt you, but
what you know that just ain't so. I think I am in that
territory now. What I have been doing was to format the new
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:09:41 -0500
Martin G. McCormick mar...@server1.shellworld.net wrote:
but I am curious as to why the first method simply has never booted?
1. As far as I know, it's not possible to simply copy a working /dev tree.
These are special files which are generated with the mknod
AW writes:
1. As far as I know, it's not possible to simply copy a working /dev tree.
These are special files which are generated with the mknod utility.
2. Booting a computer is fairly complex. Everything needs to be at a
specific
location on the drive, needs to occupy the appropriate
On 13/08/14 09:09 AM, Martin G. McCormick wrote:
I am the one who posted stating that I can't seem to make a
bootable new hard drive for my Linux Squeeze system. It's been
quoted, It ain't what you don't know that will hurt you, but
what you know that just ain't so. I think I am in that
I use sysrescuecd (http://www.sysresccd.org/) to make a new drive bootable.
There are two ways to get a bootable disk with sysrescuecd.
One way is to use a special boot mode where sysrescue starts its own kernel to a
system on the hard disk. Once booted you can just use 'grub-install /dev/sda'
Bob Weber writes:
I use sysrescuecd (http://www.sysresccd.org/) to make a new drive
bootable.
There are two ways to get a bootable disk with sysrescuecd.
One way is to use a special boot mode where sysrescue starts its own
kernel to a
system on the hard disk. Once booted you can just
Bob Weber a écrit :
A second way is to start sysrescuecd normally and mount the root file system
to
a directory. Make a directory say x and mount the root filesystem on it. Run
these three commands: mount --bind /dev x/dev and mount --bind /proc
x/proc and mount --bind /sys x/sys.
One last step may be necessary : update the UUIDs in /etc/fstab and
/boot/grub/grub.cfg, as you created new volumes with new UUIDs instead
of cloning them. Or alternatively, change the UUIDs on the new disk with
tune2fs, mkswap... to match the ones on the old disk. Otherwise you'll
be stuck
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