Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1196 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Istvan Gabor wrote:

> Hello:
>
> Recently I had more times boot problems with openSUSE 11.1 and 11.2
> after cloning/copying the operating system from one partition to
> another. Even if I adjusted fstab and boot manager (grub) according to
> the new location the boot stopped with errors like this one:
>
> "Waiting for device /dev/disk/by-id/ata-MaxtorXXXXXX-part3 to appear.
> Could not find /dev/disk/by-id/ata-MaxtorXXXXXX-part3
> Want me to fallback to /dev/disk/by-id/ata-MaxtorXXXXXX-part3 (y/n)"
>
> The device the message cites hosted the root partition of the system
> before cloning. It seems that this information is hardcoded in initrd.
>
> Why is the root device hardcoded in initrd? How could this hardcoding
> be prevented?

Hello Istvan

AFAIK, it's not actually "hardcoded", but generated during the
installation.  It's annoying, but the work-around is to rebuild the
initrd when you clone a system. 


/Per

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Per Jessen, Zürich (5.6°C)

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