On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 19:08 -0300, Joao Batista Gomes de Freitas wrote: > Hi everybody, > It has been so long since the last time I wrote something in this list. > Well, at least it means that I have been able to keep going by myself. > But, now I am stuck in a situation I would appreciate very much a little > help. I want to transfer my fc5 installation from one IDE to a SATA > drive. I have googled about grub and moving stuff cross drives but I > still haven't found a easy way to do it. > All file systems are ext3 and I have / and /boot partitions : > source: > /dev/hda1 12G / (label /1) > /dev/hda3 100M /boot (label /boot) > target: > /dev/sdc1 20G / (label /barra) > /dev/sdc2 150M /boot (label /barraboo) > > I have copied all files using "rsync -av source dest" and installed grub > by typing > "install (hd3,1)/grub/stage1 d (hd3) (hd3,1)/grub/stage2 > (hd3,1)/grub/menu.lst" > inside the grub shell. The device.map for grub is: > # this device map was generated by anaconda > (fd0) /dev/fd0 > (hd0) /dev/hda > (hd1) /dev/sda > (hd2) /dev/sdb > (hd3) /dev/sdc > (hd4) /dev/sdd > > I have edited fstab (only in the target) accordingly and tried to reboot > from sdc. I only got the word GRUB. When I boot from hda, I got a "file > not found" error. Here follows the grub.conf entries : > > > > title Fedora test(sem quiet) > root (hd3,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/barra rhgb > initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5.img > title Fedora Core (sem quiet) > root (hd0,2) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb > initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5.img > > If anybody knows how to get through this, please help. > Thanks. > > I don't know if there is anybody interested in this issue (I have no replies) but anyway I think it is worth to explain how I fixed. The trick is that you need to generate a new initrd by "chrooting" to the new installation's root. After that I have tried many combinations of root (hdx,1) until I succeed.
