-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 greetings, in another box, lost power supply due to 'bad caps syndrome'. moved hard drives from old box to new box and ran 'cp -a' and 'rsync' to move old systems files to backup drive. reformatted partitions and ran 'cp -a' and 'rsync' to move old systems files to new drive. for moving distribs from backup drive to new drive. +++ old: sys fs type size hda1 sl5.4 ext3 journalized 2g50 hda2 swap 512m - ---- hdb1 home ext3 journalized - ---- hdc1 boot reiserfs journalized 78m0 hdc2 swap hdc3 f8s ext3 journalized 4g20 hdc5 home reiserfs journalized 9g40 hdc6 f8 ext3 journalized 4g20 +++ new: hda1 sl5.4 ext3 journalized 4g012 hda2 swap 512m0 hda5 home ext3 journalized 14g651 - ---- hdb1 boot reiserfs journalized 518m0 hdb2 swap 1g024 hdb5 f8s ext3 journalized 4g008 hdb6 ext3 journalized 4g008 hdb7 m2k6 reiserfs journalized 4g103 hdb8 m2k7.1 reiserfs journalized 4g103 hdb9 m2k8.1 reiserfs journalized 4g103 hdb10 home reiserfs journalized 4g103 - ---- hdc1 backup reiserfs journalized 117g237 +++ note: grub is setup to use hdb1 as initial boot partition, not boot drive. note: hdb5/6 were 'reiserfs journalized', reformatted to 'ext3 journalized'. in new box, sl5.4 and m2k's boot ok. f8s fails boot with error messages; +++ Creating root device Mounting root filesystem Reiserfs: sdb5: warning; sh-2021 reiserfs_fill_super: cannot find reiserfs \ on sdb5 mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as reiserfs: invalid argument Setting up other file systems Setting up new root fs Setup root: moving /dev failed: no such file or directory No fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults Setup root: error mounting /proc: no such file or directory Setup root: error mounting /sys: no such file or directory Switching to new root and running init Unmounting old /dev Unmounting old /proc Unmounting old /sys Switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory Booting has failed +++ read 'grub manual', 'man grub', and 'man grub-install', trying both to correct. still fails. it appears that grub is not getting hdb5 fs type correct. what arguments do i need to pass to grub for it to get hdb5 correct? or should i wipe hdb1 '/boot/grub' and reinstall? peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look at* it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ **** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJQbbF+C4Bj9Rkw/wRAkiZAJ9tlYy2M4FwDxBroaiXtJcvLUehMACgsh7J 0jiZDvjZdo8xKAU+zD3RnKI= =KZgb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
