Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-13 Thread Itay
On Mon, 12 May 2014, Klaus wrote: Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 09:13:46 +0100 From: Klaus To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement Resent-Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 08:14:07 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On 11/05/14 09:46, Itay

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-13 Thread Itay
On Mon, 12 May 2014, Steve Litt wrote: Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 03:46:38 -0400 From: Steve Litt To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement Resent-Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 07:46:54 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Mon, 12 May

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-13 Thread Itay
On Sun, 11 May 2014, Filip wrote: Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 22:25:35 +0200 From: Filip To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement Resent-Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 20:25:58 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Sun, 11 May 2014 22:

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-13 Thread Itay
On Sun, 11 May 2014, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 08:40:49 -0300 From: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement Resent-Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 11:57:44 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debia

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-13 Thread Itay
On Sun, 11 May 2014, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 12:03:25 +0200 From: Hans-J. Ullrich To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Itay Subject: Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement Resent-Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:18 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debia

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-13 Thread Itay
On Sun, 11 May 2014, Itay Furman wrote: Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 14:08:51 +0300 From: Itay Furman To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement Resent-Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 11:24:42 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Sun, M

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-12 Thread Klaus
On 11/05/14 09:46, Itay wrote:> Hi > > > Summary of steps > > 1. Using rsync -aHq I backed up most of the file system (excluding > /proc, /sys, /run, /srv, and /tmp) On 11/05/14 20:38, Itay Furman wrote: > > > Well, right. Here is some of the output (manually typed) > > mount point

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 12 May 2014 03:26:08 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2014 22:38:20 +0300 > Itay Furman wrote: > > > mount point /proc does not exist [Note: similar errors for few more > > missing mount points such as /usr/local, /cache] > > > > special device /dev/sda1 does not exist [Note:

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 11 May 2014 22:38:20 +0300 Itay Furman wrote: > mount point /proc does not exist [Note: similar errors for few more > missing mount points such as /usr/local, /cache] > > special device /dev/sda1 does not exist [Note: that's the would be > /boot partition] > > special device /dev/mappe

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Filip
On Sun, 11 May 2014 22:38:20 +0300 Itay Furman wrote: > > > I guess the output of mount above shows that there is a problem with > the file system(s) and devices. > > Nevertheless, I also believe that I have problems with the bootloader. When you boot the installation DVD, there is an option '

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Itay Furman
On Sun, May 11, 2014, at 06:04 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2014 11:46:25 +0300 > Itay wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > > > Old disk was 300GB and failing. New is 1TB. > > > > I replaced the old harddrive and made few steps to copy the system > > back to the new drive (see belo

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Itay Furman
On Sun, May 11, 2014, at 02:40 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 05/11/2014 05:46 AM, Itay wrote: Old disk was 300GB and failing. New is 1TB. I replaced the old harddrive and made few steps to copy the system back to the new drive (see below). Obviously I missed something as the system does

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 11 May 2014 11:46:25 +0300 Itay wrote: > Hi > > > > Old disk was 300GB and failing. New is 1TB. > > I replaced the old harddrive and made few steps to copy the system > back to the new drive (see below). > > Obviously I missed something as the system does not boot. BIOS comes > up

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 05/11/2014 05:46 AM, Itay wrote: > Old disk was 300GB and failing. New is 1TB. > I replaced the old harddrive and made few steps to copy the system > back to the new drive (see below). > Obviously I missed something as the system does not boot. BIOS comes > up alright. > > > I guess that I o

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Itay Furman
On Sun, May 11, 2014, at 01:39 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Itay wrote: [snip] > > Indeed I had grub2 installed. > > Given that I repopulated the new disk manually, by a series of rsync > > commands, I suspect that I failed copying some of the critical boot > > data.

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Itay wrote: > > On Sun, May 11, 2014, at 01:03 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: >> Hi Itay, >> >> maybe it is a problem with the UUID. Just check on the new harddrive the >> file >> /etc/fstab, if there is an UUID set for the harddrive. >> > [snip] >> >> Comment ALL lin

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Itay
On Sun, May 11, 2014, at 01:03 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hi Itay, > > maybe it is a problem with the UUID. Just check on the new harddrive the > file > /etc/fstab, if there is an UUID set for the harddrive. > [snip] > > Comment ALL lines beginning with UUID= and add the physical partition >

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi Itay, maybe it is a problem with the UUID. Just check on the new harddrive the file /etc/fstab, if there is an UUID set for the harddrive. If so, comment it out and set just an entry with /dev/sda1 (or whatever) fpor the required. Here is an example: # /dev/sda7 / ext3

Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Itay
Hi Old disk was 300GB and failing. New is 1TB. I replaced the old harddrive and made few steps to copy the system back to the new drive (see below). Obviously I missed something as the system does not boot. BIOS comes up alright. I'd appreciate any help in identifying what needs to be don