Red Hat / Fedora :: Move Boot Drive To Different Controller?
Mar 26, 2010
Is it possible to move the boot and OS drive to another controller and still boot machine?
I moved the boot drive sdb1 to a different controller and I can figure out how to make the machine boot from it.
I changed the bios and get a brief boot indication, I then editted menu.lst in the grub folder and pointed it to the new device but still the machine won't boot.
Is there something I need to do, other than reinstall?
i have installed fedora 14 with so many libraries ,development tools installed on my pc but i usually have to present some projects which can run on my system .........and can't be executed or compiled due to absence of libraries and tools there so, i there some way to so that i can use this current installation on my hard drive of my pc to some external media like external hard disk and plug and use that installation anywhere on any system..
I have been given a new system, but want to try moving my old server's system / boot drive directly to it, rather than re-install.
All of the hardware is different, what am I letting myself in for? What should I prepare for?
Existing system OS is Ubuntu 10.04 Server, non-specific install from live CD.
I've done this before on Win XP and it was a nightmare, but I suppose that's not really designed for that sort of thing. I'm hoping that linux will be easier.
I'm getting a HDD Lock screen or Disk Controller Failure at boot up. (Compaq Armada) The HDD stops the system dead. The controller failure will allow me to boot Fedora or Puppy from the CD drive.
So I messed up a little and didn't leave enough room on my disk. I want to shrink my home directory and move it to the end of the drive. Is this possible? It's ext4 but no an LVM partition though.
Am I able to move Music folder to a different hard drive without moving my whole /home or do I just make a folder there and call it Music and change all the programs that use the music's default music folder?
At the school i work in i have a server2k3 server that provides a domain to all the windows clients, aswell as a fedora server that acts as an imaging machine and webserver.
Im rather concious of the fact that if for any reason the Server2k3 server was to die there is no backup of active directory, or anything that can take its place whilst a replacement is found.
So is it possible to use a fedora machine with samba as a secondary domain controller? so it can be used as a login server, and has a copy of AD.
I just installed F13 x86_64 on a system that used to be running Windows 7.
The boot drive is a SATA drive attached to the motherboard which is working fine.
However, my data drive is an NTFS partition filling a 3.6TB SATA raid.
It's GPT--Gparted sees 3 unknown partitions, and gdisk shows:
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How do I mount this in Fedora 13? I had intended to shrink the NTFS partition so that I can create an ext4 partition to move the data to. Will this be possible?
I've got a LOT of valuable data on this drive, and nothing else big enough to store it.
So I install Ubuntu 10.10 on a multi-drive, dual boot with windows 7 computer. At almost the end of the install, I see "running grub-install sda" or whatever it is. sda is my windows drive.So rather than asking where to install the bootloader or give you the option like it used to, it just did it to my "first" drive.
What the hell? Now my Windows MBR is gone. I like to maintain that so if my linux drive dies I can still boot into windows via the old windows boot loader.Possible to move Grub2 to my other drive and repair windows 7 drive MBR?
I want to move a folder from USB drive to desktop, any directory, let say usr directory. But don't know what the name for usb drive and where to find it, i know i am going to use mv command.
I would like to ask some clarification about a hard drive controller and its function. I have an lshw and dmidecode resuly below this msg and maybe someone knows what the hard drive controller of this system..or does it include below.
I have Ubuntu 11.04 on a hard drive that has Windows 7 as well. I just obtained another hard drive and want to move Ubuntu and all of the contents therein to the new drive, so I can have one drive dedicated solely for Windows (for the family) and Ubuntu on the other. The current drive is a SATA drive and the new is an IDE if that makes a difference.
I was trying to update the drive for my adaptec raid controller. Unfortunately, Adaptec only provides RPM packages. So I converted the package using alien. After dpkg install, I then tried using dkms to build the module:
Code: root@atulsatom# dkms add -m aacraid -v 1.1.5.26400 Adding driver was successful, but I got some error during the build Code: root@atulsatom# dkms build -m aacraid -v 1.1.5.26400 Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping.
I am trying to install slackware on a drive connected to an adaptec ide controller. on bootup controller is found and installed. but how do i find this drive on setup program.
I downloaded the Fedora 11 KDE livecd, installed it, and after the reboot when I get to that "firstboot" screen, I can't move the mouse, the keyboard doesn't work, I have to hold down the power button to turn off the computer.
I can not get the node or cloud controllers to startup using the init.d scripts. I have a fresh install of CentOS 5.4 with Eucalyptus 1.6.2 I have compiled Eucalyptus and all packages using the RPM supplied from Eucalyptus and utilizing yum installer. I do not currently have any processes or applications listening currently on the ports on the boxes as well. I think it may be a permissions issue or something because I get a "permission denied error", but I am not sure if it is Eucalyptus or CentOS. It looks as if it is not binding to the address on the interface of the NIC. It may be something else however. I have the Node controller, Cloud controller, and Cluster controller on seperate physical boxes. When I try to run either the cloud controller or the node controller I get this message:
Cloud Controller:
[root@cluster-cont ~]# /etc/init.d/eucalyptus-cc start Starting Eucalyptus cluster controller: (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:8774 (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:8774
Basically i want it so that the analogue stick on my PS2 controller, which connects via a USB adaptor and is recognized, correctly controls in game characters. It seems to work fine enough in platformers, at least it does with Banjo Kazooie, but with games like perfect Dark it seem to be trying to move forward and look down at the same time, also backward and look up simultaneously and look sideways and move sideways simultaneously , rendering the game all but unplayable.
I have tried running jscal and, apart from the fact that it seems a bit beyond me, it reports "jscal: missing devicename" when i try to run "jscal -c". Do others out there have there analogue sticks working correctly with games like Perfect Dark, or the James Bond games, for example?
My parents bought a new hard drive for a laptop that I've owned for several years. It's much larger than the current one, so I plan on splitting it up to dual boot it with Ubuntu.I have no problem with partitioning a drive (I always keep a LiveCD handy), but my question is this: how can I go about moving the existing partition to the new drive? This is a laptop, so I can't simply plug the new drive into another slot.
Also, even if I manage to move it, will Windows still work on the new drive in a larger partition? I've had this laptop for quite a while, and I've lost the recovery discs that came with it a long time ago. I also have a lot of software without CDs to reinstall them with. This makes not reinstalling Windows a high priority.
I have a laptop with an 80GB SSD and 500GB HDD. I currently have Windows installed on the SSD, and a 400GB data partition for Windows on the HDD. I set aside 100GB on the HDD to try out Ubuntu, and I'd like to make it my primary OS and switch it over to the (much) faster SSD.
How could I go about getting my Ubuntu setup moved over to the SSD? I have a 120GB USB hard drive I can use if necessary for getting through it.
The HDD on which I currently have my Ubuntu partition(s) (as well as a Windows partition) is dying on me (non-zero bad sector count, with warning pop-ups from Ubuntu). I have already ordered a replacement hard drive*, but I was wondering if there is a simple way to transfer the contents of my current hard drive to my new hard drive in such a way that the new one will be a fully functional replacement (e.g. so that everything will boot and run properly on the new hard drive). Which is a different size (bigger) than the current drive.
I am buying a new laptop and of course it comes with Windows 7, I prefer not dual booting and want to keep windows on a separate hard drive for that once in a blue moon I need windows, the hard drive is pretty sweet and I would rather use the new hard drive for Ubuntu and put windows on a smaller slower drive.The laptop obviously dont come with the Windows CD
I want to move 1.2GB of photos onto a 2GB thumb drive, calling up Properties, it says the size on disk is 9.7GB. What is going on? I don't recall discrepencies this huge in previous OS's. What is taking up 7 times more space than my actual files?
I have two identical laptops. One has an installed Ubuntu and parts that I want to use. The box itself is all beat up. The other box is newer but has a stale edition of linux. (Stale software means "seldom used.") I thought to be clever I would pull drive-A from box-A and install it into box-B. Likewise, I would install drive-B into box-A. This will leave my clunky software on my battered box and my newer software on the newer box.
Mechanically it works (doh!). However, neither box will see the network. When I look at the logs, I find a "rename wlan0 to wlan1" entry among others. If I put the drives back into their original box, all works correctly.
What could be going on that I cannot move the drives and have things just boot and run?
I thought that system start would detect the installed hardware, load the required drivers and all is right with the world. The "rename" log entry suggests that the old hardware details are somehow in the way of the new hardware discovery and configuration.
Is there some command I need to use or utility that I ought to run that says, "rediscover my hardware" or similar?
I already know how to use clonezilla and other ways to duplicate a drive contents to a second drive. (Note to reader: laptop drive to usb drive clonezilla takes quite some amount of time.)
Another reason that this is important lies in the ability to move a drive from in-use but failed hardware to stand-by working hardware in a fail soft recovery situation. I know that win-doze knows about the installed hardware and demands a re-install or "repair" to the alternate box... but this is linux not win-doze.
I have 2 500gb drives in my system. One of the drives I use for swap and home is failing, good thing it is under warranty... Bad thing I have to remove the drive from my system.
I have / on the first drive taking it all up. On the drive that needs replaced I have /swap and /home taking up the whole drive.
Is there a way to shrink /dev/sda to put swap and home on that drive and to move it back when new drive arrives? Or would it be simpler to just re-install to one drive?
I have one hard drive that is filling up and I went and got another hard drive and installed it into the machine. How do I move files from the full hard drive to the almost empty hard drive. I only have about 400mb left on the full drive. Or should I move the Ubuntu 8.04LTS OS to the new drive?
I have a volume group that is made up of a number of physical volumes. I am thinking of consolidating all the small physical volumes onto one big drive. Is there any benefit in this, besides making administration easier? How do I go about doing this? From what I have read, it looks like I should have to do the following
1. add the new big drive to the VG 2. use pvmove to move the smaller PV onto the new PV 3. use pvchange -xn to make sure the old PV can no longer be allocated 4. repeat for all the small PVs. 5. use pvremove to remove all the small PVs
I am trying to install Centos 5.6 on a motherboard with a built in Marvel 88SE61xx drive controller.NO drive arrays are configured using the Marvel BIOS configuration utility.During the install CENTOS displays loading MARVEL_PATA driver and it waits and waits and waits.Looking on one of the system message screens I get the following types of messages:qc timeoutfailed to identifyI/O errorLink is slow to respondSRST failed errno=16ata4: reset failed - giving upAny ideas as to how to get CENTOS to recognize the drives connected to the motherboard Marvell controller on a NON-RAID configuration?
I came in this morning only to find that the Intel Core2 hyperthreading Dell machine is dead. It appears the processor is fried.
I have a new white-box X2 system that I will replace the dead Dell with. The X2 (AMD) does not have a hard-drive (HDD) so, I will simply put the SATA hard-drive into the PC.
Some of you may know how to do this, but I don't know where to begin after I get the Hard-drive in. (I know how to move a Windows configuration from one PC to another and handle it as it begins to blue screen (BSOD), but I don't have a clue with Linux)
This system was built with GRUB. At the very least, I expect the GRUB boot managet to surface on the display. But, what next....
I was testing an OpenSuse setup as a server. Nothing fancy and NO applications added. The only customization was the MB's LAN card and the display was set at 1024x768. I had 2 users, root and myself. What would you do? Is there some boot time options that I should follow?
I have a newly built desktop with not disk drive yet. I just put Ubuntu 9.10 onto a flash drive successfully and booted it onto my desktop. It boots up the Installer boot menu and asks me if i want to run Ubuntu from the USB or Save it to hard drive. I select save to hard drive but when i turn the pc off and take out the flashdrive Ubuntu does not stay on the machine?
