Hello all! I have a Sparc IPX with with two hard-disks, an external (slow!) 2 GB hd for the OS (Debian GNU/Linux potato) and an internal hd mounted as /home. I want to "clone" my existing system on a new disk. What I have done is:
1. I have substituted the internal disk with the new one; 2. I have booted the present system, partitioning and formatting the new hd (/dev/sdb). I have not forgot to have a "whole disk" partition (/dev/sdb3) and I have created 3 other partitions on this disk for /, /home and swap. 3. Then I have mounted /dev/sdb1 as /mnt/new-disk/, copying the old fs on the new disk: 'cp -ax / /mnt/new-disk'. I have also checked everything and the copy seems fine. 4. I have finally edited /mnt/new-disk/etc/fstab to reflect the new hard-disk partitioning scheme. 5. (I have also copied the /home partition on the new system, but I think this has nothing to do with what I am describing here.) What I have done is basically the same that I did on my pc at home without any problems. The main difference is that here I have not run 'silo' after changing fstab. However, when I try to boot off the new hd (physically removing also the connection to the external disk), I get this error message: "Boot device: /sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],800000/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 File and args: The file just loaded does not appear to be executable. Type b (boot)..." It goes without saying that probe-scsi correctly recognizes the hd and that the scsi id is right. I have also tried to enable/disable bus termination on the hd with no result. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Sabino -- +---------------------------------------------------+ | Windows NT has detected that there were no errors | | for the past 10 minutes. The system will now try | | to restart or crash. Click the OK button to | | continue. | | < Ok > | +---------------------------------------------------+ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sabino Maggi ! tel: (+39) 011-3919-449 *NEW* IEN "G. Ferraris" ! fax: (+39) 011-3463-84 Strada delle Cacce, 91 ! e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-10135 Torino, Italy ! http: www.ien.it/~maggi -----------------------------------------------------------------