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Author:  graysky [ Sat Nov 28, 2009 3:16 am ]
Post subject:  transfered LinHES from an IDE drive to SATA drive - help :)
My old LinHES hdd is getting old and I want to transfer it to a new drive on a newer motherboard. Both boards have the same chipsets, one is slightly newer with SATA1 onbaord (SiI chipset). Note: both boards are old, but again, use the same chipset if this matters. Old board: Asus A7N8X-VM and new board: Asus A7N8X Deluxe.

1) I used gparted to copy my functional LinHES partition from old HDD (IDE) to new HDD (SATA).
2) I manually created swap
3) I manually created a new /myth and copied over the old /myth
4) I adjusted the /etc/fstab (not using uuids but just /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, /dev/sda3)
5) I installed grub on the new HDD with a live Arch CD so it would work which it does

I can't boot the new drive. It displays the grub menu and tries to boot, but it can't find the root device '/dev/sda1' and drops me to a recovery shell.

I'm wondering if LinHES installed to an IDE system and manually xfered to a SATA system is missing the SATA hooks? Help :)
Author:  graysky [ Sat Nov 28, 2009 5:40 am ]
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I suspected that I had to re-run mkinitcpio to get the sata hooks in there, so I followed an Arch wiki page I used to install Arch from within a Live Ubuntu CD once in the past. See this article.

Basically, I booted into my live arch cd then did:

Code:
# mkdir /newarch
# mount /dev/sda1 /newarch
# cd /newarch/dev
# rm console ; mknod -m 600 console c 5 1
# rm null ; mknod -m 666 null c 1 3
# rm zero ; mknod -m 666 zero c 1 5
# mount -o bind /dev /newarch/dev
# mount -t proc none /newarch/proc
# mount -o bind /sys /newarch/sys
# chroot /newarch /bin/bash
# mkinitcpio -p kernel26


Then I rebooted and everything was great! Hope someone else finds this useful.
Author:  pelrun [ Tue Feb 23, 2010 7:44 pm ]
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I had the same problem after completely upgrading the hardware in my system (except the hard drives, of course) - this procedure worked like a charm!
Author:  graysky [ Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:47 pm ]
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Cool man, glad someone else found it useful. It has saved me several times now.
Author:  stevenj [ Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:16 pm ]
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Just want to say that this also worked for me when moving my PATA drive with R6.03 on it from an old system to a new one. I did use a PATA-to-SATA adapter on the drive to plug it into a SATA port on the motherboard, but I think these steps would have been necessary even if I plugged it into a PATA port on the motherboard.

Thanks graysky.
Author:  marc.aronson [ Sun Oct 09, 2011 11:30 pm ]
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This looks like it will be very useful for my situation. I don't have an ARCH live CD -- can I do this by booting a LINHES live CD?
Author:  jams [ Mon Oct 10, 2011 11:31 am ]
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Yes the procedure will work with the linhes install cd.
Author:  graysky [ Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:40 pm ]
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Glad people are still getting some mileage on my random thoughts :)
Author:  marc.aronson [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:27 am ]
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I can confirm that it worked like a champ for me. I've been looking for a way to do this for years -- thanks for publishing this!

Marc
Author:  Ryan555 [ Sat Oct 15, 2011 5:46 am ]
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Just wondering if you could use Clonezilla to copy to a new HDD. Has anyone tried it, or know if it would work?

http://clonezilla.org/
Author:  graysky [ Sat Oct 15, 2011 7:50 am ]
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@ryan - to move the data you can probably use it but you will still have to rebuilt your kernel if the hardware is different. In my opinion, manually partitioning and formatting + rsync is the safest way to go.
Author:  marc.aronson [ Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:11 am ]
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Ryan, Graysky is spot on. Cloning will work if the hardware is similar enough, but I had never been successful doing cloning, copying or anything else until I follow Graysky;'s instructions when I was moving from a machine with the root partition connected via IDE to a a machine with the root partition connected via SATA.
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