Changing Hard Drives

Caeberos · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 109

okay, I just changed out the hard drives on my system.

I copied over all files from one hard disc onto the other, I made the right partitions, I made it bootable, I know part of what I did works because I can get all the way through loading the kernel, and down to the part where the system tries to mount the root file system in read/write mode, and it tells me that I cannot and allows me to go into maintanance mode....

what do I do now?

Help, I really don't have time to reinstall gentoo this weekend

-Cae

vaxbrat · l33t Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 731 Location: DC Burbs

Just how did you copy said disk? Depending on what you did, you may or may not have gotten everything.

Best way is to use dd to go from old drive to new drive of same or larger size. Any leftover space can then be used to create a new partition.

Caeberos · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 109

I think i used the cp command and a couple of flags that were to preserve permissions and so fourth

:edit:
I really don't remember what flags I used, this happened a couple of weeks ago, I haven't been home since then

nixnut · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:19 am Post subject:

Check that your fstab is still correctly listing the partitions you use. Also if you changed from a pata to a sata disk you probably need to change /dev/hdX entries to /dev/sdX entries.
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Caeberos · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 109

I just checked the fstab entries and they all look correct, all the drives are sda1 - sda3 for boot, swap and root respectively.

bilbravo · Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:07 pm Post subject: Re: how did you copy?

mad616 · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2007 Posts: 2 Location: Michigan USA

I a post that talks about the K6 restarting when you try to boot from the livecd...I am having the same problem, is there a solution,

Thanks

Mark

mad616 · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2007 Posts: 2 Location: Michigan USA

I read post that talks about the K6 restarting when you try to boot from the livecd...I am having the same problem, is there a solution,

Thanks

Mark

Caeberos · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 109

trying to copy the old hard disk using dd isn't really an option anymore, as the disk is being used elsewhere and all the data is gone, I guess I am going to start from scratch... thanks anyway guys

-Cae

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