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Mr Green

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Changed hard drive now system will not boot [Solved]

Hi,

Right got myself into a real mess, transferred data from old drive to new ... set up fstab ... grub is working...

But.... getting init kernel panic

Now I figure I need to reinstall kernel [via chroot! in wiki!]

first try did not work via ubuntu live cd so am burning arch disc now

I noticed that /dev is empty wondered is that would cause a problem

reallly do not want to install Ubuntu as I need my box hehe

MrG

Last edited by Mr Green (2008-07-22 15:21:45)

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Mr Green

Mr Green

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Re: Changed hard drive now system will not boot [Solved]

*boing

stuck my old drive in, so back in Arch... but I would like to run new drive at some point

MrG

Last edited by Mr Green (2008-07-18 17:15:59)

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Mr Green

ghostHack

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Re: Changed hard drive now system will not boot [Solved]

While most things in /dev are created on the fly you do need a console node and a null node to boot the system.  If you boot a cd, mount the drive (eg /mnt/disk) and then

mknod -m 600 /mnt/disk/dev/console c 5 1
mknod -m 666 /mnt/disk/dev/null c 1 3

That might fix the problem.

The other times I've had kernel panics have been when the root=/dev/sda? bit of the kernel line in grub was pointing to the wrong place (kernel was looking at my /home partition and wondering why it couldn't find init) so thats another thing I would check.

Mr Green

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Re: Changed hard drive now system will not boot [Solved]

thanks for that :-) I knew /dev /proc etc... as you do not need to copy them over so yes it may be the problem.... I changed grub I knew I had to change root [although I still forgot when I first booted ;-( ]

I have burned an Arch install disc now, was using Ubuntu livecd to chroot in but it takes forever to load lol... been a while since I transferred a drive

really do not want to reinstall

MrG

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Mr Green

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Re: Changed hard drive now system will not boot [Solved]

Ok added console and null but still get kernel panic

wondering if I should have copied over /proc as well? atm its empty

I knew I might forget something lol

MrG

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Mr Green

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Re: Changed hard drive now system will not boot [Solved]

I am assuming that /proc /sys /tmp of course need to be empty...would be nice to get new drive working

MrG

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Mr Green

Mr Green

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Re: Changed hard drive now system will not boot [Solved]

ok cleared /proc and /sys ... booted using my old /boot on old drive and got fstab set up sorted gnome so getting there :-)

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