-----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jesse Millan Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 9:06 PM To: redhat-list Subject: Duplicate a hard-drive wont boot kernel panic 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Thanks for the replies guys! I did however find the problem... Having created the partitions myself, I did not "label" the partitions with e2label. I had already thought of this to some extent and changed my /etc/fstab and removed all of the LABEL=WHATEVER and replaced them with /dev/WHATEVER. This however was not good enough. The kernel could not find the partition "label", and therefore would not mount the root partition. I booted into rescue mode and used the tool e2label to label all of my new partitions, and now everything works great. Hope this will help someone else, I googled for the error and found many people that have made the same mistake. I did not find the solution that worked for me. Is this a RedHat specific thing? -- 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
