So, I've posted about this question a couple of times, and it looks like everyone's as stumped as I am. I'm just about googled out. What other high quality (high signal-to-ratio) forums do you all use when TriLUG can't answer your question?
In case anyone wants to take a crack at the original question, I'm having trouble with grub and a wrong kernel image version number. I wanted to move my root partition, which contains both / and /boot to another hard drive. > > Boot knoppix or equivalent, and mount the old and new partition. It'll go > > faster if the two drives are on different IDE channels. > > > > cp -avx /mnt/old/* /mnt/new/ > > > > I suggest reading the man page to see just what those flags are doing. > > Thanks. That seemed to copy everything, but do I need to do something > special with the kernel image? Or am I forgetting something silly? I'm > getting the following error in grub > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=/dev/hdb1 > Error 15: File not found > > /dev/hda8 was my old root partition. /dev/hdb1 is supposed to be my new > root partition when I'm all done. grub.conf looks like this on both > partitions: > > default=0 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) > root (hd0,7) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=/dev/hda8 > initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8 new hard drive) > root (hd1,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=/dev/hdb1 > initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img > > /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 was copied using cp -avx from /dev/hda8 to /dev/hdb1 > (while they were both mounted from using Knoppix). I ran rdev to switch > /boot/vmlinux-2.4.20-8 on /dev/hdb1's root device to /dev/hdb. That's it. :-/ I copied all of the files from one partition to another (when they were both mounted under Knoppix) and tried to boot. The file really is /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 when I mount it under Knoppix or my initial hard drive (hd0,7). Grub is the only thing that seems to see all of those (System.map, vmlinuz, initrd, etc.) as 2.4.18-3. Where does it get that number? If I change grub.conf to say that the kernel on (hd1,0) is vmlinux-2.4.18-3, then grub will try to boot it, but then it can't find /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/, of course. Ugh! I'm just about to report a bug in grub because I can't figure out how else to determine where 2.4.18 is coming from. ---Tom -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
