Tirsdag 06 november 2007 10:01 skrev Matthew Stringer: > Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > - reported by a friend of mine, when cloning (ghosting) a 10.3 disk in > > its entirety, the cloned disk will not boot due to the serial numbers of > > the cloned disk doesn't match the serial of the original disk. > > > > - apparently this serial is written somewhere in the conf files of GRUB. > > > > - I've not seen this as I've not been to his place (quite far from here, > > trying to solve the matter through e-mail...), can this be true?? > > > > - I mean, really? :-) > > Sort of > > I ran into this problem > > Instead of using something like /dev/sda2 as the root device in grub it > has /disk/id-by-xxxxxxx or similar which it uses to identify the hard > drive, so if this changes it screws up the initrd, if you edit the boot > loader and create a new initrd it works fine from the rescue console. > > Not sure why it changed.
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