[Please turn off html when posting to mailing lists. Thanks.] 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, I recommend that you use 'rsync' for an image copy like that instead of 'cp -a'. In particular rsync can avoid /proc and your mount point which avoids the recursion. '-av --exclude /proc' et al Even better would be to use the provided knx-install.sh (spelling?) provided in /usr/local/bin by knoppix. It will handle all of the details for you. You can dig into that script to determine what they do differently. > 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? The knoppix boot sequence from a CD is not identical to the boot sequence from the hard drive. So cloning the CD directly is not really what you want. Use the knoppix installation script instead. Bob
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