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On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@××.com> |
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> I want to move the main disk contents (hda, PATA) to another, larger |
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> disk (sda, SATA). |
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> hda contains 4 ext3 partitions (root, home, data, swap). |
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> I created 4 ext3 partitions on sda and copied the data over from the |
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> corresponding hda partitions using 'cp -ax'. |
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> Then I chroot into sda1, 'grub-install /dev/sda', grub-mkconfig and edit |
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> fstab to use sda instead of hda. |
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> Reboot, from the non-UEFI bios change the disk boot order and try to |
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> boot from sda. |
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> grub from the sda starts, loads the kernel from sda1, the kernel finds |
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> the root file system and mounts it RO but then the process stops at the |
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> end of the kernel boot. No kernel panic, just hangs there with the last |
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> kernel message before openrc. Openrc is not started. |
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> What might I be missing? |
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Perhaps some permissions and special files. I would use rsync for such a |
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task: |
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rsync -Pvas /source/directory/ /target/directory/ |
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I've used that commend in the past for exactly the same motives as you. It |
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works; also, it's faster I think. |
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Regards. |
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Dr. Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Profesor de Carrera Asociado C |
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Departamento de Matemáticas |
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Facultad de Ciencias |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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