Peter,
Did you edit the yaboot configuration file,
/etc/yaboot.conf
on the clone disk, to reflect the partition names used on the clone
disk?
-Joseph
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On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 16:43 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have got a system disk which is starting to fail and I am trying to
> create
> a clone of it so that I don't have to start from scratch with installing
> from the CDs
> and applying all the patches and configuration that I need.
>
> I have created the partition table using pdisk and restored all the files
> onto
> the corresponding partitions and the partitions have the correct
> filesystems
> on ie sda2 is HFS, sda3 and sda5 are ext3.
>
> I used ybin to 'bless' the boot directory,
>
> ybin -v -b /dev/sdb2 (new disk was installed in the second slot)
>
> When I try to boot from this disk, it gets past the first stage but then
> failed when it tried to load the second stage bootstrap.
>
> Does anyone know what I need to do to get it to load the second stage?
>
> I really don't want to have to recompile my kernel etc all over agin if I
> don't have to.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
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