Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1196 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2010/01/18 13:38 (GMT+0100) Istvan Gabor composed:

> 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?

I successfully cloned one just a few days ago, but I remembered also to
regenerate the uuid of the cloned partition. Having more than one root
partition with identical UUIDs is not good. On first boot of the clone I did
generate new initrds, but for unreleated reasons
<http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483136>, not because I knew if I
had to. Grub also needed reinstallation on the clone in order to actually use
the menu.lst from the clone. ATM, I don't remember if I had to do anything else.
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