Hello,
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:59:23AM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote:
> SystemA: good install of sarge onto /dev/sda, sda is 128M free space, 16G
> ext2 mounted on / , 2GB swap. to clone the disk i'm doing:
> 
> init 1, swapoff -a, mount -n -o remount,ro /
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024k
> 
> the dd completes as expected, i can mount /dev/sdb2 and it looks ok. 
> 
> when i put the clone disk into systemB if fails to boot, it gets too aboot
> and aboot tries to load the kernel, with a number of normal looking aboot
> messages but it finally hangs at:
> 
> aboot: starting kernel vmlinuz with args ro root=/dev/sda2
> 
> and hangs there. 

What happens, if you boot with -fl "i" and then run "l" in aboot on
the "broken" machine? 

Greetings

       Helge


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