Thanks for reading.

I want to clone my RH9 to a new HDD. I insert new drive as hdb
(unformatted), make  partitions and format them.

When I try to reboot to clean up daemons and enter runlevel 1 to copy
partition contents computer won't boot. It displays lots of "file not found
on /var" etc.
If I move second drive to hdc and the message is "kernel panic. INIT not
found". It seems like the computer tries to boot from new, empty drive.

Both drives are identified correctly by BIOS as master (old) and slave
(new,empty).

If I remove the drive the old drive boots as normal.

grub's menu.1st 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/hda6
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-24.9)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-24.9 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-24.9.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img

Any idea on how to boot with two HDDs?

-Asbjorn

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On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:05:01 +0000 Asbjørn wrote:

> Thanks for reading.
>
> I want to clone my RH9 to a new HDD. I insert new drive as hdb
> (unformatted), make  partitions and format them.
>
> When I try to reboot to clean up daemons and enter runlevel 1 to copy
> partition contents computer won't boot. It displays lots of "file not foun
d
> on /var" etc.
> If I move second drive to hdc and the message is "kernel panic. INIT not
> found". It seems like the computer tries to boot from new, empty drive.
>
> Both drives are identified correctly by BIOS as master (old) and slave
> (new,empty).
>
> If I remove the drive the old drive boots as normal.

You certainly have doublicated the partition labels. Be sure on second
harddrive the partitions have different labels.

Alexander


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