Re: Trying to migrate slug from memory stick to external HDD
Am Samstag, 21. Februar 2009 schrieb John Winters:
> John Winters wrote:
> [snip]
> > I know I'm going to kick myself when someone points out what I've
> > forgotten to do, but...
>
> I still don't know what I hadn't done, but I found a (sort of) way
> around it.
>
> Instead of partitioning the new disc and then copying files I simply did:
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024k
>
> and then:
>
> e2fsck /dev/sdb2
>
> and now the slug will boot from the HDD instead of the memory stick.
>
> I'd still like to know what was going wrong in the first place though.
> I've studied various web pages describing the boot sequence and it seems
> from the lights that the kernel loaded from flash simply couldn't find
> the root partition. Any suggestions as to why would be gratefully
> appreciated.
What is in your fstab? If the second way works it sounds like
adressing the root via uuid and when you create a new
filesystem the uuid differs, while after the dd it is the same.
Regards Michael
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