Backup booting

[Karl Larsen]

    I have a rsync backup on my computer at /dev/hda7. The backup came 
from /dev/sda2. The backup on hda7 was taken from sda2 to a USB hard 
drive. That was then sent to hda7.

    Both /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst were changed to reflect the 
new location on hda7. Copied the menu.lst from the new to the current 
menu.lst so it can be tried easy.

    When I boot the backup it goes quite a ways but errors out looking 
for some std USB things. That seems to be wrong. Here are the parts of 
both menu.lst and fstab for review. I am certain menu.lst is working.

menu.lst:

# backed up version on /dev/hda7

title        Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic backup
root        (hd0,6)
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic 
root=UUID=16ccb569-10ba-43c2-856e-f2cce1307a29 ro
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet

Now fstab is from the backed up system and is:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/hda7
UUID=16ccb569-10ba-43c2-856e-f2cce1307a29 /               ext3    
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/hda3
# UUID=af67fcdb-daeb-4a06-8273-fce1ef201ad1 /media/hda3     ext3  
defaults        0       2
# /dev/hda5
# UUID=58f8383b-eae4-410a-9f14-9db64006e9ef /media/hda5     ext3    
defaults        0       2
# /dev/hda6
# UUID=3c7b4283-88ff-42e6-85cb-67c95fc9bf54 /media/hda6     ext3    
defaults        0       2
# /dev/hda7
# UUID=16ccb569-10ba-43c2-856e-f2cce1307a29 /media/hda7     ext3    
defaults        0       2
# /dev/hda8
# UUID=a9c1cb61-ddfd-44f6-88b0-6dc976daf9ca /media/hda8     ext3    
defaults        0       2
# /dev/hda9
# UUID=dbb7ee8d-ca89-44f7-a169-8f88af9bb925 /media/hda9     ext3    
defaults        0       2
# /dev/sda1
# UUID=984714d3-bcfd-434f-916c-d2b7386b4482 /media/sda1     ext3    
defaults        0       2
# /dev/hda1
UUID=7915f630-518c-425b-9fea-0ef07e50d0f9 none            swap    
sw              0       0
# /dev/hda2
UUID=4d7c4159-d00c-4069-bfb6-f9a6e153c723 none            swap    
sw              0       0
/dev/hdb        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0
/dev/hda9           /home       ext3     defaults       1    2

As you can see I have blocked most of the mounts to /media just to make 
it simpler.

    Does anyone see how init is hitting a error it can't go beyond?

What was the hard part, getting grub to start the right kernel is 
working fine. There is something other wrong.

Karl

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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