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das.t

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Registered: 2007-10-20

Posts: 8

moved the system to another hd and partition - cannot create root dev

hi,

i moved my arch system from one hd to another one, also to another partition. now the system does not come up, complaining it could not find the root partition. it still expects the old one, even though grub does have the right kernel option.
is this inside the initrd? how can i change it there?
is chrooting an option to rebuild the initrd?

thanks for your advice,

das.t

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: moved the system to another hd and partition - cannot create root dev

Did you update your fstab?

Chroot and change it, if you didn't.

prasetyams

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From: Jakarta

Registered: 2008-04-29

Posts: 74

Re: moved the system to another hd and partition - cannot create root dev

First, make sure your GRUB entry is pointing to the correct partition, if you use UUID entry then you must update it exactly to reflect the new partition ID. Use "ls -lhF /dev/disk/by-uuid" to find it.

Second, you must edit the fstab, look above.

Third, try to boot with kernel-fallback.img

Fourth, when sucessfully booting, rebuild the initrd image with "mkinitcpio -p kernel26", after that you can boot with standard initrd.

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das.t

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Registered: 2007-10-20

Posts: 8

Re: moved the system to another hd and partition - cannot create root dev

hi,

i just want to say thank you for the help, the second helped. yet i had the realtime kernel installed and with that it did not work. as i had very little time during the recent weeks i did what i wanted to avoid: i re-installed.

thanks!

das.t