OK. Just picking a random reply so this is not just for Peter K.
This opened a HUGE can of worms. I made CERTAIN I have backups of things like /home and multiple backups of my .mozilla directory. After that, I booted the USB stick thingy. It's the sysrescue one. Anyway. I repartitioned sda to like I wanted, including putting all but / and /boot on LVM. I did the usual file system creations and mounting. Then transferred everything over. ALL that went well enough. Might I also add, it is much faster on SATA. ;-) I edited fstab, grub.conf and all that to look for the updated things. I had my ducks beak to tail. Reboot. Uh oh !!!! Crap hits the fan, BIG TIME. That thing is still looking for the old partition sda3 for / just like when I was trying to boot off the sdb drive. This thing had errors everywhere. The kernel loaded but everything else failed, miserably. Heart sinks. Lots of chin scratching. Then some banging head on wall. Then I booted the stick thingy again. I had a brain fart. Who here remembers me saying I tried to use the init thingy that the kernel builds itself and couldn't get it to work? Let's see those hands please. Yea, that sucker was still there. I forgot to remove it since it didn't work. < slaps forehead > This explains a LOT of the problems I was having with dracut too. Basically, dracut and the kernel built init thingy was duking it out behind the scenes. We didn't know that. My fix was to rebuild the kernel with the kernel built init thingy disabled. I still got a couple errors tho but it did boot pretty well. May have a new thread for that, if google don't help. How's that for a head slapper? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
