David wrote: > > Check the kernel command line in your /boot/grub/grub.conf to see if > it might be using a UUID in the kernel parameter that specifies the > partition to mount as root. The UUID is a identifier created uniquely > by your system for each hard drive partition. The grub.conf syntax is > the same as described by 'man fstab'. > > Here is an example from /boot/grub/grub.conf my Fedora 9 initial install. > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 ro 3 > root=UUID=9ce915fd-c95f-4817-8b02-448a4306fb11 > > After you clone the drive, the cloned copy of grub.conf will contain > the UUID of the original drive. You will need to edit this line in the > cloned grub.conf so that it matches the UUID of the cloned drive. > > Or you can elect to use one of the other fstab syntaxes accepted by > grub, such as these examples > root=LABEL=somelabel > root=/dev/sda1 > > You can see the UUID of your drives by > ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ > With a dd copy of the drives, I would expect the UUID to also copy. On the other hand, if the disk controller hardware is different on the second machine, I would expect that a new initrd file would be needed. You would run into the same problems as you do when moving a drive to a new motherboard. Personally, I would not use dd for the job - there are better tools for coping a drive that only copy the date and formatting. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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