Hello together, i want to place my question here, because i didn't get an answer in "normal" user forums. My Problem: I want to copy a complete Linux installation from one PC to other PC's. In the past i could do that just by booting Knoppix from CD, making an tgz from the source partition and extract it on the destination partition. This works fine in Debian with Kernel 2.6.22. After the extract i could boot with some error messages and timeouts. Then i updated some config's in /etc and afterwards i could update the initrd.img. The PC's have the same mainboard and processor, but can differ in the harddisk and type of Nvidia graphic-card. Now i am switching to Kubuntu 10.04 with kernel 2.6.32 and i tried the same procedure. But i get no chance. The boot-process stuck early acessing the harddisk. The main poblem is that the source PC has a SATA disk and the destination PC an IDE disk. I tried different tricks to boot (without the initrd.img in grub) or update the initrd.img on the destination PC, but nothing works. So my question is how can i boot the system without using the initrd.img ? It's possible to boot from CD on different hardware, but up to now i don't know how this is working? Or maybe somebody knows a better solution for my problem? Regards Karsten -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
