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greetings,

in another box, lost power supply due to 'bad caps syndrome'.

moved hard drives from old box to new box and ran 'cp -a' and 'rsync' to move
old systems files to backup drive.

reformatted partitions and ran 'cp -a' and 'rsync' to move old systems files
to new drive.

for moving distribs from backup drive to new drive.

+++
old:    sys     fs type                 size
hda1    sl5.4   ext3     journalized    2g50
hda2    swap                            512m
- ----
hdb1    home    ext3     journalized
- ----
hdc1    boot    reiserfs journalized    78m0
hdc2    swap
hdc3    f8s     ext3     journalized    4g20
hdc5    home    reiserfs journalized    9g40
hdc6    f8      ext3     journalized    4g20
+++
new:
hda1    sl5.4   ext3     journalized    4g012
hda2    swap                            512m0
hda5    home    ext3     journalized    14g651
- ----
hdb1    boot    reiserfs journalized    518m0
hdb2    swap                            1g024
hdb5    f8s     ext3     journalized    4g008
hdb6            ext3     journalized    4g008
hdb7    m2k6    reiserfs journalized    4g103
hdb8    m2k7.1  reiserfs journalized    4g103
hdb9    m2k8.1  reiserfs journalized    4g103
hdb10   home    reiserfs journalized    4g103
- ----
hdc1    backup  reiserfs journalized    117g237
+++

note: grub is setup to use hdb1 as initial boot partition, not boot drive.
note: hdb5/6 were 'reiserfs journalized', reformatted to 'ext3 journalized'.

in new box, sl5.4 and m2k's boot ok. f8s fails boot with error messages;

+++
Creating root device
Mounting root filesystem
Reiserfs: sdb5: warning; sh-2021 reiserfs_fill_super: cannot find reiserfs \
  on sdb5
mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as reiserfs: invalid argument
Setting up other file systems
Setting up new root fs
Setup root: moving /dev failed: no such file or directory
No fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
Setup root: error mounting /proc: no such file or directory
Setup root: error mounting /sys: no such file or directory
Switching to new root and running init
Unmounting old /dev
Unmounting old /proc
Unmounting old /sys
Switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
Booting has failed
+++

read 'grub manual', 'man grub', and 'man grub-install', trying both to
correct. still fails.

it appears that grub is not getting hdb5 fs type correct.

what arguments do i need to pass to grub for it to get hdb5 correct?

or should i wipe hdb1 '/boot/grub' and reinstall?



peace out.

tc,hago.

g
.

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