Hi,
Slackware 10.
I am trying to change my hard drive. I duly copied all partitions and files to the new drive with 'tar -C "$1" -cOl . | tar -C "$2" -xpf - '. Now when I boot I get:
.... Freeing unused kernel memory: 120 K freed. Warning unable to open an initial console. Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
When I boot using the rescue disk after
.... Freeing unused kernel memory: 120 K freed.
it continues with INIT: version 2.84 booting ...
to fully boot and I can use the installation flawlessly.
init is at /sbin/init.
Where is the hang-up ?
Thanks & regards
Is the new hard drive in the same location as the old one? i.e. on IDE drives, both the old and new hard drives were master drives on the primary interface, and for SCSI drives, does the new hard drive have the same SCSI ID on the same adapter card in the same PCI slot as the old one?
If not, you will have to modify lilo.conf to reflect the location of the new hard drive. "man lilo.conf" and "info lilo.conf" have a great deal of information about how to set the root partition configuration in lilo. Make sure you run the "lilo" command as root before rebooting, since just modifying lilo.conf will not change the configuration in the boot sector.
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