Re: searching a method providing the migration of a whole F20 installation to another Fedora box

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On 10/17/2013 06:19 PM, Brendan Jones 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

Hi Brendan,

this was the the operative point: rebuilding a universal initramfs
helped a lot. Now my migrated F20 runs properly.

Thank you very much!

Kind regards

Joachim Backes

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