Re: Migration to new HD: "unable to open an initial console"

2005-07-20 Thread Matthijs
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:50:07 +0200, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthijs wrote: > > > I've followed the Debian harddisk-upgrade HowTo, changed fstab > > according to the above, installed grub on the new harddisk according > > to a posting here by Mitchell Laks (thanks for that!). > > > >

Re: Migration to new HD: "unable to open an initial console"

2005-07-20 Thread Shark Wang
I thought / shuold be the first partition in your case. -Shark On 7/21/05, Matthijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:40:08 +0200, michael > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 22:53 +0200, Matthijs wrote: > > > I'm in the process of migrating my server to a

Re: Migration to new HD: "unable to open an initial console"

2005-07-20 Thread Matthijs
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:40:08 +0200, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 22:53 +0200, Matthijs wrote: > > I'm in the process of migrating my server to a new harddisk - from a > > 3.5inch IDE to a new 2.5inch notebook IDE to save power & less noise. > > > > I thought I should

Re: Migration to new HD: "unable to open an initial console"

2005-07-20 Thread Marty
Matthijs wrote: I've followed the Debian harddisk-upgrade HowTo, changed fstab according to the above, installed grub on the new harddisk according to a posting here by Mitchell Laks (thanks for that!). Then I switched the machine off, removed the old harddisk, switched the new harddisk from sl

Re: Migration to new HD: "unable to open an initial console"

2005-07-20 Thread michael
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 22:53 +0200, Matthijs wrote: > I'm in the process of migrating my server to a new harddisk - from a > 3.5inch IDE to a new 2.5inch notebook IDE to save power & less noise. > > I thought I should take the opportunity to set up the system to use > several partitions instead of

Migration to new HD: "unable to open an initial console"

2005-07-20 Thread Matthijs
I'm in the process of migrating my server to a new harddisk - from a 3.5inch IDE to a new 2.5inch notebook IDE to save power & less noise. I thought I should take the opportunity to set up the system to use several partitions instead of one big partition. The new partition scheme should be as sugg