[H-GEN] Transferring a RH Linux system from one drive to another
Craig Eldershaw
ce at comlab.ox.ac.uk
Tue Jan 12 17:18:35 EST 1999
>After doing this, and attempting to mount all the partitions necessary on
>this drive, it became apparent I could not mount any partitions after
>sde10. Is there a limit on the number of partitions? does this only apply
>to certain drives?
Do you have the necessary device nodes made ? (ie. /dev/sde11) If not,
try making them (/dev/MAKEDEV should do it). You may have sda11, but
not sde11 (it's not everyday that someone want it !).
>> > There are a few problems here, apart from just getting the files
>> > across, mainly related to boot up:
>> > LILO has to be made to point to the right root device
>
>would the boot sector on the new drive remain unaffected? or would I have
>to point lilo to the right partition again after copying files.
I would worry about everything else first. Then when the hdd is
otherwise set up and in the new machine in the place it is expected to
permanently occupy: boot off a floppy, edit /etc/lilo.conf (if
necessary) and re-run lilo. Should be right then.
>> The boot partition must be within the first 1024 cylinders (lovely legacy
>> that), and sometimes will not work if spans that magic number. 10MB for
>
>boot partition is 150 Mb
The above only applies to (E)IDE hdds. Anything is fine for SCSI (which
you apparently have).
C.
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