Hello,
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:59:23AM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote:
> SystemA: good install of sarge onto /dev/sda, sda is 128M free space, 16G
> ext2 mounted on / , 2GB swap. to clone the disk i'm doing:
>
> init 1, swapoff -a, mount -n -o remount,ro /
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024k
>
> the dd completes as expected, i can mount /dev/sdb2 and it looks ok.
>
> when i put the clone disk into systemB if fails to boot, it gets too aboot
> and aboot tries to load the kernel, with a number of normal looking aboot
> messages but it finally hangs at:
>
> aboot: starting kernel vmlinuz with args ro root=/dev/sda2
>
> and hangs there.
What happens, if you boot with -fl "i" and then run "l" in aboot on
the "broken" machine?
Greetings
Helge
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