On 2010/07/30 16:38 (GMT-0700) James D. Parra composed:

Have used 'dd' in the past

Please define "the past" precisely. Which Linux version did you do it successfully with?

to copy one hard disk to another and boot off new drive, however I must be overlooking something.

Highly likely you are. Is boot failure occurring while both master and clone remain present in the system?

Running from a DVD in Rescue-Mode, I can modify /boot/grub/menu.1st to boot from /dev/sda1 and the root is on /dev/sda3, but once I reboot I get the Grub menu showing which kernel to boot, default or failsafe, yet the next screen shows;

doing a fast boot Creating device nodes with udev Waiting for device /dev/sda3 to appear ... could not find /dev/sda3.

That could be a misleading message. What might be happening is /dev/sda3 is an alias to two partitions with identical UUIDs - if both master and clone remain in system together. In recent and current kernel editions, real identities of storage devices are in the /dev/disk tree.

In Repair mode I can mount /dev/sda3 and all the contents are there. Any ideas how I can fix this? As of now I can't boot.

It might be useful to know the age of the HD controller chip and the driver it requires, as well as what if any other devices are present on that controller family. Are these PATA? SATA? Is there a DVD or CDROM? If so, on what controller? How is the BIOS boot order set? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org