panic after rsync

[dsavage at peaknet.net]

On Tuesday October 18, 2005 at 9:23 am "Tim"
<ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 19:53 -0500, dsavage at peaknet.net wrote:
>> Strictly speaking, /dev isn't a mounted filesystem but I suppose it's
>> possible that some of its entries might not be precisely the same on a
>> LVM disk as a plain partitions disk. Is there a preferred way to
>> regenerate the /dev directory from scratch using MAKEDEV when booted
>> to the Rescue CD?
>
> I just copied one HDD to another today, using the cp command with
> appropriate parameters on most of the directories.  If I recall what I
> did correctly, I didn't copy /dev/ I just made an empty /dev directory
> on the new drive, and let the system fill it on the next boot.
>
> I was of the understanding that, now, /dev/ is dynamically generated
> each boot.

Tim,

I'll try that when I get home from the game tonight (NLCS Game 6 - GO
CARDINALS!!).

Last night I booted with the Rescue CD, copied everything in /dev to /dev1
(just in case), and ran "./MAKEDEV generic" in /dev.  The result booted to
the same panic.

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL