I did a quick hack that allowed me to boot up in a relitively stable enviroment with some problems regarding keys I am guessiing this is the keys that generate on first login, that get used to check packages. I built a FC6 PC using a single partion and no swap, then using a recovery CD rsync'd the / partition over the top of the install. I did not sync the /boot, this worked and proved the sata drive and cards are compatible. I am going to clone the partition to a backup, re clone the original disk on to the sata and copy the menu.lst, device.map and fstab with minor modification back. I am hoping this will work, I may need to reinstall grub but that will not be a problem. Any thoughts on if this will work? On 01/01/2008, Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 2008/01/01 16:40 (GMT) Paul Ward apparently typed: > > > I am normally quite good with grub but currently I am struggling with > > a disk upgrade on my brothers PC. > > > He has purchased a pci sata card, and added a new 1TB drive. > > > I have used dd to copy the boot sector to the new drive, then used > > clonezilla and copied hda1 (/boot) to sda1, and copied hda3 (/) to > > sda3. hda2 is swap and has been recreate as sda2. > > > I edited the /boot/grub/menu.lst from > > > title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8) > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet > > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img > > to > > title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8) > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=/dev/sda3 rhgb quiet > > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img > > I wouldn't count on tmpfs knowing the meaning of root=/dev/sda3. Give your > root partition a meaningful label, such as F8root, and put root=LABEL=F8root > in your grub menu. Get rid of rhgb and quiet and maybe you'll see some clues > about the problem in the startup messages. > > > I change the device.map from > > > (hd0) /dev/hda > > to > > (hd0) /dev/sda > > > and edited fstab from > > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > > to > > /dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > > > I have checked with e2label that all partitions are correctly named as well. > > Again, a more unique partition label would at least be a good idea. > > > Is there something else I have missed? > > Several kernel versions ago the HD drivers were moved out of the kernels into > modules. Maybe your initrd doesn't have the modules you need for that PCI > SATA device. Maybe the chip on that device is too new to have a driver. What > does lspci -v say about it? > -- > "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was > with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1 NIV > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 > > Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
