Must I mknod for /dev/tty* manually? On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:17:31 +0800 Yin Ming <yinming@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
