Re: Announcing Fedora 7 Test 2 (6.91)

[dragoran <drago01 gmail com>]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Adam Pribyl (pribyl lowlevel cz) said: 
>   
> > Thank you. That's exacly what I wanted to know. Even thou it is not very 
> > happy, as this problem also means that duplicating fedora install on 
> > different hardware can result in unbootable system, because initrd 
> > contains only IDE driver it was installed on. For me as I am from time to 
> > time cloning installs its not very good approach.
> >     
>
> Simply remaking the initrd after you clone should solve this - mkinitrd
> has the logic to autoprobe the root filesystem, and should catch any
> changes even if you don't edit modprobe.conf.
>
>   
yes this works fine its the same for sata now.
when I changed my laptop to ahci mode in the bios it failed to boot 
because there was no ahci module in initrd. I booted into rescue mode 
and regenerated the initrd and the system booted fine afterwards.
> Bill
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