Stewart Walker (swalker@mta.ca)
Thu, 04 Feb 1999 21:45:24 -0400
I have ANS 500. Linuxppc runs fine on external drive (DUSERS kernel). I can
transfer and use internal disk for /usr and swap. I similarly move all root
partition files to internal drive, fix fstab on the internal, do quik -vr
/copy, basically following directions from Aaron de Mello.
But there is a problem booting from the internal drive. Things look fine
until after the kernel probes the SCSI controllers and looks for drives and
partitions. Then i get complaints about the swap signature, and magic
number for the filesystem. It suggests corruption of the superblock which I
appear to be unable to fix. Nonetheless with root password I can browse the
filesystem and all appears to be there. df gives silly results though. On
rebooting from the external, e2fsck claims the partition I had tried to
boot from is OK.
What is it that I don't know about transferring root filesystems between
drives? Or having linux running on the external, is it possible to run a
RedHat installer from that drive and do a fresh set up on the internal drive?
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