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Re: Attempt to Move Root



On Monday 21 December 2015 15:25:15 Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 04:50:00 -0500 (EST), David Baron wrote:
> > Went through all the motions, both ways: On native and chroot. Results
> > were the same.  Get in that loop of lv not ready messages.  Difference:
> > Native attempt still needs the IDE plugged in or I get 99 99 99 ... ,
> > chroot does not.
> >
> > So, what do I do next?
>
> Obviously, the LILO map file is on the IDE drive.  Is your /boot partition
> on the IDE drive?  If so, you cannot remove it. 

Could he not dd them onto another drive?  Obviously not - but why not??

Lisi

> The /boot partition must 
> be a partition on a physical drive, but obviously it cannot be on the drive
> that you want to remove.
>
> The "volume not ready" messages would indicate that LVM2, or some file(s)
> needed by it, are not included in the initial RAM file system.


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