Re: migrate / to new partition; wants to use old mount points

[Ric Otte <ric@otte.ucsc.edu>]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 07:40:02PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
> Are you sure you made the necessary changes to /etc/yaird/Default.cfg
> and /etc/fstab before calling yaird?
> 
> You can extract the relevant file, "init", from the new initrd like this:
> 
> zcat new-initrd-name | cpio -i init
> 
> Then you can check if these lines in "init" specify the correct device:
> 
> mkbdev '/dev/sda' 'sda'
> mkbdev '/dev/sda6' 'sda/sda6'
> 
> /bin/mount -n \
>         $ro \
>         -t ext3 \
>         -o 'errors=remount-ro' \
>         '/dev/sda6' \
>         '/mnt'
> 
> You could also try to chroot into the new root partition and build the
> initrd from there.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,            | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
>           Florian   |

I think I made the right changes to /etc/yaird/Default.cfg,and when I
followed your directions, I got the right lines in init.  So I
chroot into the new partition and made a new initrd.img.  But I still
couldn't boot. 

Here are some of the last lines on the screen before it hangs on boot:

  hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4
Attempting manual resume
umount: devfs: not mounted
mount: unknown filesystem type 'devfs'
kjournald Starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
umount: devfs not mounted
/sbin/init: 432: cannot create /dev/null: Read only filesystem
/sbin/init: 433: cannot open dev/console: No such file
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init

I am not sure what all of this means.

Thanks,
Ric