How to move whole RH9 to another hard-disk?

[Otto Haliburton]

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> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Yin Ming
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 12:18 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: How to move whole RH9 to another hard-disk?
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
The linux partitioning routine is the thing to use, I get it confused with
windows, but I believe windows routine is 'part' and linux is 'parted'.
Anyway, read the instructions for parted and it should tell you how to move
a entire partition to the new drive into the same size or different sizes,
etc.