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Thanks for the response, I do have an entry /dev/console, user root, group |
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tty. It has no symlinks. I would have to reconnect the suspect disk to |
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check if it is the same. |
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Thanks |
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Paul |
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On Monday 19 Sep 2005 15:23, Michael Kintzios wrote: |
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> > -----Original Message----- |
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> > From: Paul [mailto:gentoo@××××××××××××.com] |
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> > Sent: 19 September 2005 14:39 |
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> > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing main harddisk |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > Well I have carried out the procedure outlined in your |
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> > message, but I have had |
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> > some problems. |
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> > When booting the new disc it always failed with a reiserfs |
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> > problem (I once |
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> > rebuilt the tree), after 3 attempts I still had errors so I |
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> > formated the |
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> > partition with ext2, copied all the files and rebooted. IT WORKED. |
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> |
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> Which of the different procedures did you try. Did you run |
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> fsck.reiserfs from a LiveCD or your old disk to see if some corruption |
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> occurred during the data transfer? (I guess it's too late now). |
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> |
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> > The only error I have detected is during boot I get a warning |
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> > "unable to open |
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> > an initial console", the screen freezes until x is started. |
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> > This doesn't seem to be a big problem but I would like to fix |
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> > it -- any |
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> > ideas???? |
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> |
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> Not entirely sure - others may want to advise better - but are you |
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> running devfs? It seems that this is an error thrown up when devices |
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> are not recognised. This would make some sense, after all this is a new |
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> device. With udev all you should do is restart udev and the new device |
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> parameters would be recognised. That should happen during a reboot |
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> unless you have configured your machine to cache the device db? Can you |
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> find your /dev/console and does it have the same sylinks and access |
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> rights as your old disk installation? I'm not at my Linux machine now |
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> so I can't check myself. |
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> |
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> Finally, reset your BIOS before a reboot if you have |
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> disconnected/reconnected drives, to recognise the new devices and their |
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> boot order. |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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