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[Istvan Gabor <suseuser04@xxxxxxx>]

2010. január 18. 13:54 napon Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> írta:

> 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

Actually it was not the partition what I cloned but the directory system. I 
created another ext3 filesystem on another partition and used rsync -a command 
to copy openSUSE 11.2 to the new partition. So I don't have the same UUIDs.  I 
don't use partition labels either. 

> generate new initrds, but for unreleated reasons
> , 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.

Yes, I also reinstalled grub after adjusting menu.lst but this did not 
solve/prevent the issue.
The boot process starts normally but it stops since it can not find  a device 
which is not needed at all. The root parameter in menu.lst clearly defines 
which one is the root disk.

Istvan

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