Thank you all. Refering to your points, I've solved it. I copied the /dev to the new hd via Steve's method, cpio, and made a /proc, Then everything goes well. it was a nice night. thank you! On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 02:30:03 -0600 (CST) Steve Phillips <steve@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > >> > >> -- > >> 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 > > > > -- > 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
