[ydl-gen] Creating a clone boot disk

[Joseph E. Sacco, PhD]

Peter,

Did you edit the yaboot configuration file,

	/etc/yaboot.conf

on the clone disk, to reflect the partition names used on the clone
disk?

-Joseph

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On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 16:43 +0000, peter.g.harper at magnox.co.uk wrote:
> I have got a system disk which is starting to fail and I am trying to
> create
> a clone of it so that I don't have to start from scratch with installing
> from the CDs
> and applying all the patches and configuration that I need.
> 
> I have created the partition table using pdisk and restored all the files
> onto
> the corresponding partitions and the partitions have the correct
> filesystems
> on ie sda2 is HFS, sda3 and sda5 are ext3.
> 
> I used ybin to 'bless' the boot directory,
> 
> ybin -v -b /dev/sdb2  (new disk was installed in the second slot)
> 
> When I try to boot from this disk, it gets past the first stage but then
> failed when it tried to load the second stage bootstrap.
> 
> Does anyone know what I need to do to get it to load the second stage?
> 
> I really don't want to have to recompile my kernel etc all over agin if I
> don't have to.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter
> 
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