Re: moving root (/) to new drive...

[Thomas Elsen <thomas.elsen@rivy.org>]

Jeff Hahn wrote:

> I'm clearly missing a step here, any help would be appreciated...
>
> copy drive to new partition, edit /etc/fstab.
>
> Once I copy drive contents to a new partition, I am unable to get a clean
> boot using the new partition as root even when booting from the install cd
> in rescue mode.
>
> Apparently there is somewhere else that the debian kernel keeps track of
> the root device...
>
> I have not had these types of problems using other distributions.
>
> Any recommendations????
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
>
>  
You have to edit /etc/lio.conf when changing the location of the root 
device.
Save and close the file and run 'lilo -v'.

When you reboot now, you should be booting from the new root-partition.

Thomas