Hi, all I recently bought a new hard-disk, to replace the old one. But I got some problems during moving the whole system to this new hard-disk. The old hardwares are: ide 0 master: QT HD win98 ide 0 slave: CDROM ide 1 master: MX HD RH9 The BIOS boots from the hd1(the ide 1 master MX HD), then GRUB on this disk's MBR. then the kernel and system which were both in the single partition of MX HD. Now, I pluged the new ST HD on ide 0 master, replacing the old QT HD, and I'm going to use it as the system disk, and the MXHD as the backup disk. ide 0 master: STHD RH9 ide 0 slave: CDROM ide 1 master: MX HD data backup To do this moving, I mount the STHD in /mnt/st, then copied all the files ( except /dev, /proc and /mnt etc. ) to /mnt/st, the STHD, then I installed the GRUB on STHD's MBR via: root (hd0,1) #the linux root partition on STHD setup (hd0) quit And edited grub.conf and fstab to appropriate devices. Then reboot, but got a failure before the kernel's calling to init, I mean, after initrd finished, it printed out something like "Cann't get an initial console " then halt... Another problem is the GRUB on this new disk cannot use the graphic mode to display splash screen. My monitor got black if I enable the splash in grub.conf. I think it's relative to the "cann't get an initial console" problem. Strange, it worked fine on the old MXHD, and this new disk hasn't any bad sectors. How to move whole system to another disk? I don't want to reinstall all the stuff... Help. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
