dgrant
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Joined: 28 May 2003
Posts: 158
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
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 Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:19 am Post subject: reiserfs, console and hard drive upgrade problem |
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I'm getting some strange problems when moving my gentoo linux to a new hard drive.
I mounted my new hard drive with a reiserfs partition at /mnt/sata, then I do:
I added a new grub entry called "new hard drive" with everything changed from (hd0,7) to (hd1,0) and changed the kernel location to be on the new drive and the new root= argument to be the new drive. That works fine. I also changed the fstab on the new drive accordingly.
When I boot the first time, it seems to seems to like the new drive, but then it goes,
"Unable to open an initial console" and doesn't really procede much futher, then the computer then boots automatically soon after.
I think this might have something to do with udev not creating /dev/console or something like that.
If I boot up linux again to the new hard drive, grub doesn't even like the new hard drive and it can't do anything. It complains about the drive being a type 83, and the drive file system type not being correct or something. It's basically just totally confused because the new drive is screwed.
When I get in to my old Linux, I try debugging the old drive. Trying to mount it gives this:
| Code: | | mount: not a directory. |
Even reiserfsck can't do anything with it:
| Code: | reiserfs_open: the reiserfs superblock cannot be found on /dev/hde.
Failed to open the filesystem. |
The funny thing is, I have repeated this entire procedure above two times and the same thing happened both times. |
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