Moving F7

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Thu Sep 27 12:21:50 UTC 2007


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>   
>>     I have looked at /lib/modules and the first email to my topic said
>> it all. "You may need to update your modules". There are thousands of
>> modules there. No way can I figure out which one to change. I gather no
>> one else knows either. It would have helped if he said kernel modules.
>>     
>
> The term "module" in Linux normally means "kernel module".
>
> If you are referring to my original posting,
> I didn't say you needed to "update" your modules,
> I simply said you need to copy /lib/modules/<version>/
> from your old disk to your new one,
> together with the appropriate vmlinuz and initrd,
> ie the kernel and initrd are not sufficient alone.
>
>   
>>     But the only thing that makes sense is to load a new F7 on the SATA
>> hard drive. Then move /home to that F7 and let it update all night. This
>> I can do. The module route requires too much learning I don't need to
>> have.
>>     
>
> Unless you compiled the kernel yourself,
> you are almost certain to have all necessary disk-drive modules already,
> in /lib/modules/<version>/kernel/ata/ .
>
>
>
>
>   
    Tim I just looked at the new 85 kernel and there is no such thing as

/lib/modules/<version>/kernel/ata/

so what did you mean?

    By the way I did copy with dd the entire F7 from my old to new IDE 
hard drive. It would not boot. It was not a grub problem. It was a 
kernel panic because initrd was wrong and perhaps the kernel was wrong 
IF you need to change that.

    To get it working I had to do a little upgrade to the copied f7 with 
the f7 DVD. It completed fast and then I could boot to this copy.

    So I am not going to do that again.


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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