On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Markus Kesaromous <remotestar@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On my workstation, with FC9, I attached a second drive, identical to the linux boot drive. > In single user mode, I cloned sda to sdb > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=32M > I shut down and remove the second drive and insert it into > another workstation. > > Booting the second workstation fails because it cannot find > /dev/root, among other things, and the kernel panics. Please do not post html to this list. 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/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
