OEM hard disk replication

[Chadley Wilson]

> >> You may be in too much of a hurry to answer this (please don't swear
> >> at me), but what exactly fails when you put the duplicated disks in
> another machine?
> > [>] I get a kernel panic message
> What did it say? Something about root?
>
[>] Yes, I found that what Brian said is accurate. I actually learnt something to day. (Thanks Brian)

So for all you fellows out there trying to duplicate hard drives,

Edit /etc/fstab

There are 4 lines

# / was on /dev/sdaX during installation
UUID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  /       ext3    errors=remount-ro        0        1

And

# swap was on /dev/sdaX during installation
UUID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  none    swap    sw                       0       0

Replace the UUID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with the relevant /dev/sdaX

Then you need to regenerate your  grub

To do this you need edit:
/etc/default/grub

Look for a line:
# GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

Uncomment it by removing the #

Then run
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

NOTE:
 I had to delete the original /boot/grub/grub.cfg before it would work. In my case it added an additional set of menu options to grub leaving the original non-working set alone.
So to summarize I had about 8 items in the list.

reboot and happy cloning...


Thanks to all for the help.

There is one more problem, maybe someone here can help me.. I will post it separately..


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