On 11/6/07, Verner Kjærsgaard <vk@os-academy.dk> wrote:
Tirsdag 06 november 2007 10:01 skrev Matthew Stringer:
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
Hi list,
- reported by a friend of mine, when cloning (ghosting) a 10.3 disk in its entirety, the cloned disk will not boot due to the serial numbers of the cloned disk doesn't match the serial of the original disk.
- apparently this serial is written somewhere in the conf files of GRUB.
- I've not seen this as I've not been to his place (quite far from here, trying to solve the matter through e-mail...), can this be true??
- I mean, really? :-)
Sort of
I ran into this problem
Instead of using something like /dev/sda2 as the root device in grub it has /disk/id-by-xxxxxxx or similar which it uses to identify the hard drive, so if this changes it screws up the initrd, if you edit the boot loader and create a new initrd it works fine from the rescue console.
Not sure why it changed.
THANKS to all!!
One of guys hit this issue too. I don't know what he had to fix in grub's menu, but I know the final fix wa in /etc/fstab, so don't forget to have your friend update that as well. We actually do a lot of cloning of our lab machines. We edited the grub/fstab fields to go back to /dev/sda, etc. prior to making the clone. Our machines are similar enough that it works for us. If there is a better way, we're all ears. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org