I've run into a snag with something that I thought would be pretty simple. Due to a lack of disk space on the drives currently installed in my workstation, I'm attempting to move from those 2 drives to one larger one. In this particular case, /usr/lib is 95% full and /var is 89% full. Since those are fixed partitions, I can't increase their size, and even if I had used LVM, there's no space left on the drives, which hold those filesystems, to add to them. While I was at it, I decided that it would be prudent to upgrade to FC5. I've created two partitions on the new drive, which will be hda1 and hda2...hda1 will be my /boot partition, and hda2 was set up as an LVM partition, using the rest of thedrive. I then used the LVM tool to create logical volumes and filesystems on them, to match what I have currently (increasing the size of the affected LVs to give me room to work). I then tar'd up the entire system, and untar'd that archive to the new drive, so that everything matched...with the noted exception that there is no boot record. The next step was to disconnect the other drives, put this drive in as hda, boot from the FC5 CDs. Anaconda recognized the existing "Fedora Core installation". I instructed it to go ahead and install the boot loader (GRUB)...and I've tried to have install into the MBR as well as to the /boot partition (/dev/hda1). After the upgrade has appeared to complete, the system restarts, but never gets to the stage2 loader. I've tried booting in rescue mode, and using grub-install, but to no avail. The only thing I can think of, now, is to try again, excluding the /boot filesystem from archive/restoral. I thought I'd pretty much gotten the entire process figured out, but I'm having no luck. Has anyone else done this type of migration, and if so, would you mind sharing, with me, what you did to make it a successful migration? Thanks. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
