[CVALE] Help with partimage

Rick Knight rick_knight at rlknight.com
Sun Jan 24 14:53:08 PST 2010


Patrick Bennett wrote:
> Rick, did you adjust the device names in /etc/fstab?     -p
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> Rick Knight wrote:
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>> Hello group,
>>
>> I need some help with partimage. I have an older PC running my mail 
>> server. I want to upgrade to a new box. The older PC has an IDE drive 
>> with one primary partition at hda1 and an extended partiton devided into 
>> 2 partitions, hda5 and hda6 (swap). The new PC has a SATA drive. I've 
>> partitioned the SATA drive similarly to the IDE drive except that the 
>> partitions are sda1, sda5 and sda6. I've used partimage to make images 
>> of 2 of the partitions on the IDE drive and have been able to put the 
>> images on the new SATA drive without any errors. Now when I try to boot 
>> the new PC I get errors about not being able to mount /dev/hda5 and 
>> /dev/hda1 (/boot) does not mount at all. I can manually mount the 
>> partitions and the data is intact. I've changed lilo.conf to call 
>> /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda and I've run lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf to 
>> write the new configuration to the MBR. Nothing seems to get me past the 
>> /dev/hda problems. How can I make this system boot from /dev/sda instead 
>> of /dev/hda?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rick
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Patrick, thanks for the suggestion. I had completely overlooked fstab. 
That solved the problem.

Thanks,
Rick



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