Ajay Sharma spake the following on 10/13/2006 11:42 AM:
Hi,
I'm about to copy the contents of one server onto another. The "plan" that I've come up with is:
boot the new server with a live disc, partition accordingly
a big tar-over-ssh for the /boot, and root partitions (that's all
there is)
- adjust the fstab so that it'll find the new scsi partitions vs. the
old ATA ones.
- then chroot into the new system and run grub to initialize the
bootloader.
I'm switching a server from a single HD to a SCSI mirror on our new machine. So it has a different partition setup and I don't want to mess with resizing.
Does that sound about right to get the machine booted? I'm sure there will be some other minor things but I can sort that out once I get the data over and the machine booted.
--Ajay
If it boots from a different type of drive, you will have to re-create the initrd's. Might be a good idea anyway. You can usually insmod any drivers you need and the mkinitrd script "usually" puts them in the initrd.