Re: Easiest way to move my installation to my new laptop ? Cloning the drive ?

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Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Phil Meyer wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Don't forget about rebuilding the initrd if the driver for your hard
drive controller changes. (I had this happen with PATA controllers.)

Mikkel
here is what I use -- also from rescue -- F9 only -- when I know the
controller may be different -- probably overkill:

after chroot to /mnt/sysimage

#!/bin/sh

kernel=`ls /boot/vmli* | awk -F\- '{printf("%s-%s\n", $2,$3)}'`
initrd="/boot/initrd-${kernel}.img"
rm $initrd
/sbin/mkinitrd --preload=ehci-hcd --preload=ahci --preload=libata
--preload=jbd --preload=ohci-hcd --preload=uhci-hcd
--preload=scsi_wait_scan --preload=usb-storage --preload=scsi_mod
--preload=sd_mod --preload=pata_amd --preload=ata_generic
--preload=pata_cs5536 --preload=pata_acpi $initrd $kernel
#

I normally move the drive, and see if it boots. If it does not, then
I boot with the rescue disk. (Or USB key.) After that, it is about
the same as you do, except I do not use the --preload options. I
don't do it often enough that I have a script for it, and I only
make a new initrd for the latest kernel.

I'd suggesting adding a "-f" to the mkinitrd command to force an
overwrite of any existing initrd image.  And you may also have to do
a "grub-install" as well if the primary controllers are dissimilar.
It's burned me before.
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