On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 22:53 +0200, Matthijs wrote: > I'm in the process of migrating my server to a new harddisk - from a > 3.5inch IDE to a new 2.5inch notebook IDE to save power & less noise. > > I thought I should take the opportunity to set up the system to use > several partitions instead of one big partition. The new partition > scheme should be as suggested by the 'hardening debian' HowTo. > > Old partitionscheme: > > /dev/hda1 / about 79GB (bootable) > /dev/hda5 swap 0.5GB > > New partitionscheme: > /dev/hda1 / 5GB (bootable) > /dev/hda2 swap 0.5GB > /dev/hda5 /tmp 1GB > /dev/hda6 /var 1GB > /dev/hda7 /var/mail 5GB > /dev/hda8 /home about 67GB > > I've followed the Debian harddisk-upgrade HowTo, changed fstab > according to the above, installed grub on the new harddisk according > to a posting here by Mitchell Laks (thanks for that!). > > Then I switched the machine off, removed the old harddisk, switched > the new harddisk from slave to master and turned the machine on. > > Grub executed OK, there's a lot of info scrolling over the screen. At > some point there's a message, something like 'mounting /dev/hda1 > read-only' (don't know exactly since it isn't logged anywhere) > > The next message is where it ends: 'unable to open an initial > console'. > > I'm sure I followed the Howto's to the letter and Google doesn't give > me any answers to this problem. > > I think the problem is that '/' is mounted read-only at first so that > the rest (/tmp, /var, /home) can't be mounted anymore, but I'm not > sure about that - what would that have to do with opening a console? > And why didn't that give me problems with my 'old' harddisk? > > Relevant content of /boot/grub/menu.lst: > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8 root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=791 > savedefault > boot > > Would removing 'ro' in the kernel option line be a possible solution? > > Relevant content of /etc/fstab: > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 > /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/hda5 /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda6 /var ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda7 /var/mail ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 > > Nothing wrong here, I think.
This rings a tinsy winsy bell... but I think for me it was to do with booting not finding my HD (since I have a SATA and moved from 2.4 (hde) to 2.6 (sda))... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
