Re: Moving F7

["Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa gmail com>]

On 9/26/07, Karl Larsen <k5di zianet com> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On 9/26/07, Karl Larsen <k5di zianet com> wrote:
> >
> >> Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >>
> >>> Karl Larsen wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>     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.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> I don't think that is true.
> >>> I've moved kernel + initrd from one disk to another without problem.
> >>> Obviously you have to have the modules it references on the disk.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>     Obviously to who? What modules are you talking about? What disk are
> >> you talking about?
> >>
> >
> >
> > Hopefully obvious to anyone attempting such a thing.
> >
> > The disk on which you have moved the kernel to.
> >
> >
>     OK the disk is the new one. What modules are being talked about?
> What is a module?


Simplified very much, it's kinda like a driver. Check the listing of
the files that come in the kernel package.


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