On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:30:26AM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Moving Fedora 9 Hard Disk To Another System > From: Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. > <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 11/19/2008 08:08 PM > >> What is more likely is that the motherboard is using a different >> hard drive controller. The new controller requires a different >> module from the original one. So you have to build a new initrd for >> that system. This was covered in detail on the list a while back. >> >> Depending on the other hardware, you may have to run kudzu, or you >> may have to delete some or all of the >> /etc/udev/rules.d/??-persistent*.rules files. >> >> Mikkel >> > > > He won't need to build a new initrd. The UUID specified in his grub.conf > is wrong. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the UUID is specific to a hard > drive, so even if he cloned the image, the UUID would be for the > original hard drive and wouldn't work on the cloned image. > > Try setting root to "root=LABEL=/" or "root=/dev/sda2" or generate a new > UUID. The UUID is part of the file system superblock, not tied to the physical hard disk, IIRC. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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