moving F7

[Karl Larsen]

Roberto Malinverni wrote:
>> -----Messaggio originale-----
>> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:50:11 -0600
>> From: Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>
>> Subject: Moving F7 
>> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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>>     I went through moving an entire existing F7, this one, 
>> from one hard 
>> drive to another. It worked but I had a real problem with 
>> initrd. This 
>> file has within it the partition it expects to find the 
>> system. I have 
>> it working right now since the /boot is in another partition from the 
>> rest of the system.
>>
>>     In theory if I do things just like on this hard drive on the new 
>> hard drive it should work. But I would like to know how to 
>> change initrd 
>> to work to a different partition than it was initially set for.
>>     
>
> I did something similar in the past, but the initrd wasn't an issue - I
> accessed the new / partition
> with a rescue cd and edited fstab according to the new disk layout.
> The initrd should be important when you need to load some drivers in the new
> system that you didn't need in the old one (the modules for a new sata
> controller, for instance).
> Am I wrong?
>
> Roberto
>
>
>   
    Your right, I want to put this F7 complete onto a new hard drive 
which is a SATA connected hard drive. My BIOS calls it an IDE drive for 
some reason :-)

    It sure appears that the file in /boot can and does tell the kernel 
where /root is. Right now /root is in the /dev/sda5 partition. On the 
SATA drive it will in the /dev/sdf3 partition.

    How do I tell it to look at /dev/sdf3? Is this how it works? You 
mention /etc/fstab. I can make that correct with no problem. Will that 
then let it load?



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