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I still think you need to partition the new drive first, then |
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dd the individual partitions. |
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Addresses within partitions are normally handled as sector offsets, but |
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booting and locating the start/extent of partitions don't always. |
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The fdisk format on PCs is ancient and predates SCSI (and IDE drives that |
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pretend to be SCSI). It encodes addresses in terms of sector/head/cylinder, |
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as well as storing block offset information. |
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Unless the old and new drives are identical geometry (for example, |
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the same make and model) then any code that tries to use physical |
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addressing based on geometry is going to screw up if the fdisk table |
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does not match the drive... |
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Regards, |
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DigbyT |
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 04:54:57PM -0800, maxim wexler wrote: |
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> |
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> boots into a panic. Here's the last 5 lines: |
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> |
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> [28.856347] ReiserFS: sda3: found reiserfs format |
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> "3.6" with standard journal |
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> [31.560835] ReiserFS: sda3: warning: sh-2029: reiserfs |
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> read_bitmaps: bitmap bitlock(#14057372) reading failed |
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> [31.663418] UDF-fs: No partition found (1) |
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> [31.663466] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to |
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> mount root fs on unknown-block(8,3) |
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> [31.663493] |
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> |
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> After dd'ing I compared both drives w/fdisk and they |
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> were identical except for the device names, of course. |
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> I *did* update fstab and grub.conf and ran |
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> grub-install w/o error. Don't know why it was looking |
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> for a UDF fs. |
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> one thing I noticed though, the SATA drive is about 3M |
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> smaller than the ATA. |
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Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt@××××××.com |
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http://www.digbyt.com |
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