something I've done is to use dd if=source HD of=targetHD dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb for example. This makes an exact copy. The problem is that as far as the OS is concerned, it's still the smaller device. If you dd'd a 10 Gb HD onto a 40Gb Hd, for instance, the machine won't see the additional 30 Gb. You can fix this by resizing the partitions. I've used parted successfully. Read the manual first. It's on-line at http://www.gnu.org/manual/parted-1.6.1/html_mono/parted.html Earl On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 22:06, Jesse Millan wrote: > I just bought a new larger hard drive. I want to replace my existing > drive with the new one. I am not interested in re-installing. I wanted > to copy all of the data from the old disk over to the new disk and > remove the old one. > > I installed the new disk, created the partitions (the same only larger) > and copied all the data on to the new disk. I powered down, removed the > old drive tried to reboot and I am getting nothing but kernel panics. > > > Pivitroot:pivit_root (/Sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed:20 > > > Any help would be great. I would really appreciate some things to double > check. > > -- > Jesse Millan > CNS Server Team > Portland State University > Phone: (503) 725-3285 > Fax: (503) 725-6487 > GPG key: www.system-calls.com/gpg.php > > Innovate, don't suffocate. -Ken Fisher > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
