generally I use cpio to do this and dont exclude the /dev directory, cp will have problems copying device special files (well, used to a few years back) which cpio doesnt seem to have.
mount new drive in /mnt/st
cd /mnt/st find / -print -depth | egrep -v "^\/proc|^\/mnt" | sort | cpio -pmvd .
(note, this command may be hazardous to your health if you type it without checking first :-) I just tapped it out off the top of my head)
then alter your grub.conf and fstab files
-- Steve.
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Yin Ming wrote:
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.
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