On Oct 17, 2013, at 10:19 AM, Brendan Jones <brendan.jones.it@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/17/2013 05:39 PM, Joachim Backes wrote: >> Hi testers >> >> Some months ago I installed F20 on some box. Because it runs stable, I >> tried to migrate this F20 to another box. So I copied the filesystem(s) >> of that F20 to the target machine, and after having conformed fstab, >> grub2 bootloader and some other files to the target machine, I tried to >> boot, the boot was performed partially, but did not complete. >> >> The target machine runs F19. >> >> This method did run in earlier Fedoras! >> >> My question: is there a method to copy safely this F20 to another box? >> > Not exactly recommended, but its a good idea to rebuild your initramfs using dracut, or disable it in grub so all kernel modules are loaded properly on reboot. If this is done with cp -a, then the volume UUIDs are all different, and by default anaconda creates fstab with UUIDs, and grub-mkconfig makes the grub.cfg with UUID also. So I would: mount rootdevice /mnt mount bootdevice /mnt/boot mount -B /dev /mnt/dev mount -B /proc /mnt/proc mount -B /sys /mnt/sys chroot /mnt fix the /etc/fstab, use blkid or ll /dev/disk/by-uuid/ to find the UUIDs dracut -f blah.img blahkernel grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg exit reboot Should work. And if you want to rebuild the rescue initramfs, remove the rescue kernel and initramfs from /boot and run: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/51-dracut-rescue-postinst.sh Chris Murphy -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
