How to move whole RH9 to another hard-disk?

[Yin Ming]

Thank you all. Refering to your points, I've solved it.

I copied the /dev to the new hd via Steve's method, cpio, and made a
/proc, Then everything goes well.  it was a nice night. thank you!

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 02:30:03 -0600 (CST)
Steve Phillips <steve at focb.co.nz> wrote:

> 
> generally I use cpio to do this and dont exclude the /dev directory, cp 
> will have problems copying device special files (well, used to a few years 
> back) which cpio doesnt seem to have.
> 
> mount new drive in /mnt/st
> 
> cd /mnt/st
> find / -print -depth | egrep -v "^\/proc|^\/mnt" | sort | cpio -pmvd .
> 
> (note, this command may be hazardous to your health if you type it without 
> checking first :-) I just tapped it out off the top of my head)
> 
> then alter your grub.conf and fstab files
> 
> -- 
> Steve.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Yin Ming wrote:
> 
> > Must I mknod for /dev/tty* manually?
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:17:31 +0800
> > Yin Ming <yinming at mdc-ds.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, all
> >>
> >> I recently bought a new hard-disk, to replace the old one. But I got
> >> some problems during moving the whole system to this new hard-disk.
> >>
> >> The old hardwares are:
> >> ide 0 master:	QT HD win98
> >> ide 0 slave:	CDROM
> >> ide 1 master:	MX HD RH9
> >>
> >> The BIOS boots from the hd1(the ide 1 master MX HD), then GRUB on this
> >> disk's MBR. then the kernel and system which were both in the single
> >> partition of MX HD.
> >>
> >> Now, I pluged the new ST HD on ide 0 master, replacing the old QT HD,
> >> and I'm going to use it as the system disk, and the MXHD as the backup
> >> disk.
> >>
> >> ide 0 master:	STHD RH9
> >> ide 0 slave:	CDROM
> >> ide 1 master:	MX HD data backup
> >>
> >> To do this moving, I mount the STHD in /mnt/st, then copied all the
> >> files ( except /dev, /proc and /mnt etc. ) to /mnt/st, the STHD, then I
> >> installed the GRUB on STHD's MBR via:
> >> root (hd0,1) #the linux root partition on STHD
> >> setup (hd0)
> >> quit
> >>
> >> And edited grub.conf and fstab to appropriate devices. Then reboot, but
> >> got a failure before the kernel's calling to init, I mean, after initrd
> >> finished, it printed out something like "Cann't get an initial console "
> >> then halt...
> >>
> >> Another problem is the GRUB on this new disk cannot use the graphic mode
> >> to display splash screen. My monitor got black if I enable the splash in
> >> grub.conf. I think it's relative to the "cann't get an initial console"
> >> problem.
> >>
> >> Strange, it worked fine on the old MXHD, and this new disk hasn't any
> >> bad sectors. How to move whole system to another disk? I don't want to
> >> reinstall all the stuff... Help.
> >>
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