Transfer F7 partition to a new hard disk

[Paul Smith]

On 10/20/07, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Just want to clarify: you want to clone a partition or a hard drive?
> > > Will you leave the original hard drive in the computer or remove it
> > > after you're done cloning it?
> >
> > Thanks, Jonathan. I want to remove the old hard disk after it is
> > copied into a partition of the new hard disk.
>
> Okay, here's what I would do (assuming that the new hard drive has
> *nothing* on it and is the same size or larger than the old drive):
>
> 1. While the computer is off, plug the new hard drive in
> 2. Boot from the Rescue CD
> 3. Work out which drive is the new one (the target) and which is the old
>    one (the source).  For the purpose of this example, the source will
>    be /dev/sda and the target will be /dev/sdb.
> 4. Run "dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1M".
>    IMPORTANT: Make sure that /dev/sda really is the *source* and that
>    /dev/sdb really is the target.  If you get them backwards, you will
>    erase *all* of your data.
> 5. Shutdown system.
> 6. Remove old hard drive and plug new hard drive into IDE (or SATA) port
>    old hard drive was in.
> 7. Reboot.
>
> Just a heads up that the partitions on the new drive will be the same
> size that they were on the old drive.  If you want to make them larger
> (because your new drive is larger) you need to use something like
> system-config-lvm (assuming you're using LVM).

The point is that the rescue disk does not boot here, as the original
F7 kernel is buggy; the working F7 kernel is recent. Any ideas how to
overcome this problem?

Paul