On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Scott Silva wrote:

Ajay Sharma spake the following on 10/13/2006 11:42 AM:

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Hi,

I'm about to copy the contents of one server onto another. The "plan" that I've come up with is:

1. boot the new server with a live disc, partition accordingly

2. a big tar-over-ssh for the /boot, and root partitions (that's all

there is)

3. adjust the fstab so that it'll find the new scsi partitions vs. the

old ATA ones.

3. 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.

I believe the mkinitrd reads the /etc/modprobe.conf to determine what modules to include in the initrd, not the loaded modules.

Barry