Re: Trying to move root partition

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Paul Galbraith wrote:

> I want to move my root partition to a new drive.  I created a new 
> partition and formatted it, and then used cp -a from a knoppix CD to 
> copy the root parition files over to the new parition, and changed 
> fstab to point to the new location.  However, when I reboot from the 
> new location, I get this error and a kernel panic, and the system 
> freezes during boot:
>  
>     mout: /dev2/root2 is not a valid block device
>  
> Does anyone know what happened?

In addition to editing /etc/fstab, you probably also need to edit 
/etc/lilo.conf and then rerun lilo (assuming you're using lilo).

But I may be misunderstanding your question. It might help if you posted 
your partition scheme, and your pre-change fstab and your post-change fstab.

--
Kent