OEM hard disk replication SOLVED?

[NoOp]

On 03/03/2010 02:07 AM, Chadley Wilson wrote:
...

> [>] Nope!  the problem is that the UUID is NOT changing and that is
> causing the problem.
> 
> Duplicating the hard drive is preserving the UUID's. Because they are
> written into the grub.cfg and the efstab
> 
> By enabling this setting  and rebuild the grub config - 
> GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
> 
> The system reverts back to /dev/sdaX dropping the UUID system
> altogether. But you still need to edit out the UUIDs from the fstab
> as I discovered this morning...
> 
> Now I am not entirely sure how it works. But it seems that grub has a
> lot to do with it. If I take the drive and plug it into a completely
> different spec machine, it boots and redetects all the hardware. No
> prob... that works as it was pointed out in one of the posts. But it
> is the same physical hard drive which I plug into both machines.
> 
> Now because it is the same HARD DRIVE :) the UUID will always be the
> same hence why the hard drive can boot in any system. But when you
> duplicate the drive even block by block. The new or destination
> drives will each have their own unique UUID. But the image which is
> duplicated on those destination drives will contain the UUID of the
> master. Hence why the system fails to boot.
> 
> So to work around it you need to revert back the old school way of
> declaring the device in the two config files.
...

You may find this of interest:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/202144
[dd + gparted + UUID]

And these might be of help:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/karmic/man8/tune2fs.8.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab (you already have the UUID links).
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubiquity
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity?field.searchtext=OEM&orderby=-importance&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&field.status%3Alist=INPROGRESS&field.status%3Alist=FIXCOMMITTED&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch=&field.has_no_package=>

[the OEM installer is now in ubiquity on both the Alternate CD and the
standard DVD - you might consider filing an question/issue with the
ubiqity package]