Move a mail server

[Lisa Casey]

Hi,

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shankar Jha" <shankar.jha at gmail.com>
To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: Move a mail server


> Try this one..
>
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=*LABEL=/?????*
>
>
>
> On 6/21/07, Lisa Casey <lisa at jellico.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Bliss, Aaron
>> To: Lisa Casey ; redhat-list at redhat.com
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:02 PM
>> Subject: RE: Move a mail server
>> Hi,
>>
>> Lisa,
>> It's definitely possible that the you just need to update your grub.conf
>> file and point it to /, as the new box (depending upon it's
>> configuration) maybe identifying the hard drive differently than the old
>> box...you can fix this by booting the new box from an install disk into
>> rescue mode...
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean by pointing grub.conf to /. Currently 
>> grub.conf
>> looks like this:
>>
>> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
>> #
>> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
>> file
>> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
>> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
>> #          root (hd0,0)
>> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
>> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
>> #boot=/dev/hda
>> default=0
>> timeout=10
>> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10)
>>        root (hd0,0)
>>        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda3
>>        initrd /initrd-2.4.7-10.img
>>
>> What exactly in this file should I change?
>>
>> Lisa


At the risk of sounding stupid here...  surely you don't mean for me to put 
*LABEL=/?????*   into grub.conf?  The boot error message vI was getting was 
No init found. Googling tells me I need to specify in grub.conf which 
partition /sbin/init is in. Should I change the line in grub.conf to read:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/

I'm afraid to play around with this syntax as I'm concerned that a mistake 
will render my machine unbootable. At least now I can boot it on the  old 
hardware.

Lisa Casey