Hi all,
I am trying to boot from a HD created as a copy of a running system (and it doesn't work, and I don't understand why ...)
This is the system to be copied : File-system Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 2.0G 797M 1.1G 43% / tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda5 4.7G 3.3G 1.2G 74% /var/spool/squid/cache1 /dev/hda6 4.7G 3.3G 1.2G 74% /var/spool/squid/cache2
The backup of the system has been done with : /bin/tar czO -C / --preserve-permissions --sparse --one-file-system \ --exclude=lost+found --exclude=tmp/* \ . \ | /usr/bin/nc -w 5 my.workstation 6060 # ( after executing # netcat -l -p 6060 > $IMAGE on my.workstation )
On the target HD, I have created three "type 83" partitions and a swap, ran mke2fs -cc -j /dev/$D for the three FS and mkswap -c /dev/$D for the future swap.
The target root FS was restored with : tar xzpf $IMAGE -C /mnt/linux
On the target root FS, I edited /etc/fstab and /etc/grub.conf, replacing any reference to LABEL=... by the real device (/dev/hda1 and so on).
Then I took care of the initrd (future / is mounted on /mnt/linux/) : mount -o bind /dev /mnt/linux/dev mount -t proc none /mnt/linux/proc mount -t sysfs none /mnt/linux/sys rm /mnt/linux/boot/initrd* chroot /mnt/linux mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.img 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 # so far, so good...
... and installed grub on the target HD : /sbin/grub --no-curses find /boot/grub/stage1 # answer : (hd0,0) root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) # answer : succeeded quit exit # (chroot)
When I try to boot the target HD (set as hda in a new PC), I get the grub prompt, and I can boot the system. Every thing goes too quickly, so I can't see what is going on, until :
... Trying to resume from /dev/hda3 No suspend signature on swap, not resuming. Creating root device. Mounting root filesystem. mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as auto: No such device Setting up other filesystems. Setting up new root fs setuproot: moving /dev/failed: No such file or directory no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults Then it complains about missing /proc and /sys, and end with : switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
/dev/hda3 is the swap partition on the new disk. The swap was in /dev/hda2 on the old disk, but fstab has been modified accordingly ; other FS are just like on the old disk (I mean, / is hda1, cache1 is hda5 and cache2 is hda6).
I have certainly forgotten something, but I am unable to find what... Who can help me ?
Thanks,