Re: Booting fails after moving to another hardware: unable to find root partition

Hi, unfortunately, the chroot environment was not so helpfull as generating a new initial ram disk with the standard tool (yaird) relies on the current environment. And when booting with knoppix, this was almost but not exactly the same. But I could solve the issue by building the intial ram d

Re: Booting fails after moving to another hardware: unable to find root partition

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:56:02 +0100 Reiner Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > after moving the contents of my root partition to another host, > the root partition ist not found while booting. > > To do the "move", I copied the files using tar and changed > the partition name in /etc/fstab

Booting fails after moving to another hardware: unable to find root partition

Hi, after moving the contents of my root partition to another host, the root partition ist not found while booting. To do the "move", I copied the files using tar and changed the partition name in /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst. Previously, root was on /dv/hda6 (an IDE disk) and now it is