How to move whole RH9 to another hard-disk?

[Steve Phillips]

generally I use cpio to do this and dont exclude the /dev directory, cp 
will have problems copying device special files (well, used to a few years 
back) which cpio doesnt seem to have.

mount new drive in /mnt/st

cd /mnt/st
find / -print -depth | egrep -v "^\/proc|^\/mnt" | sort | cpio -pmvd .

(note, this command may be hazardous to your health if you type it without 
checking first :-) I just tapped it out off the top of my head)

then alter your grub.conf and fstab files

-- 
Steve.


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Yin Ming wrote:

> Must I mknod for /dev/tty* manually?
>
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:17:31 +0800
> Yin Ming <yinming at mdc-ds.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, all
>>
>> I recently bought a new hard-disk, to replace the old one. But I got
>> some problems during moving the whole system to this new hard-disk.
>>
>> The old hardwares are:
>> ide 0 master:	QT HD win98
>> ide 0 slave:	CDROM
>> ide 1 master:	MX HD RH9
>>
>> The BIOS boots from the hd1(the ide 1 master MX HD), then GRUB on this
>> disk's MBR. then the kernel and system which were both in the single
>> partition of MX HD.
>>
>> Now, I pluged the new ST HD on ide 0 master, replacing the old QT HD,
>> and I'm going to use it as the system disk, and the MXHD as the backup
>> disk.
>>
>> ide 0 master:	STHD RH9
>> ide 0 slave:	CDROM
>> ide 1 master:	MX HD data backup
>>
>> To do this moving, I mount the STHD in /mnt/st, then copied all the
>> files ( except /dev, /proc and /mnt etc. ) to /mnt/st, the STHD, then I
>> installed the GRUB on STHD's MBR via:
>> root (hd0,1) #the linux root partition on STHD
>> setup (hd0)
>> quit
>>
>> And edited grub.conf and fstab to appropriate devices. Then reboot, but
>> got a failure before the kernel's calling to init, I mean, after initrd
>> finished, it printed out something like "Cann't get an initial console "
>> then halt...
>>
>> Another problem is the GRUB on this new disk cannot use the graphic mode
>> to display splash screen. My monitor got black if I enable the splash in
>> grub.conf. I think it's relative to the "cann't get an initial console"
>> problem.
>>
>> Strange, it worked fine on the old MXHD, and this new disk hasn't any
>> bad sectors. How to move whole system to another disk? I don't want to
>> reinstall all the stuff... Help.
>>
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