On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Scott Silva wrote: > 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: >> >> 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