On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:50:07 +0200, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthijs wrote: > > > 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'. > > The problem seems to be that some console device is required before > any udev devices are created. > > I've solved this by copying all the devices from a live filesystem > onto /dev of the cloned drive, but you probably only need xconsole > or something similar.
I thought about this after posting my original message and checked. <now checking again...> Ouch! No /dev/console! OK, I thought I *did* copy everything from the original filesystem: > cp -ax / /new-disk ... and even checked when I ran into trouble whether /dev/console existed: > /ls -l /dev/console ... but I should have checked with > ls -l /new-disk/dev/console The directory /dev (and also /sys) are completely empty. Stupid me! I just copied everything in /dev and /sys again, booting the new filesystem right now... YES! Much better now! Thanks for the help! -- Matthijs [EMAIL PROTECTED] No need to 'cc' me, I read the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
