Re: problem with cloning linux sys partition

[Jordan Uggla]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Pawel Karpowicz <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hallo Group Members.
> I want to clone my ubuntu 11.04 system from usb hard drive into hard
> drive (/dev/sda6).
>
> what I did:
> 0) boot into 11.04 which resides on my usb drive
> 1) mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/newSys # sda6 is expected to keep sys copy at hardrive
> 2) cp -xdpR / /mnt/newSys
> 3) mount --bind /sys /mnt/newSys/sys
> 4) mount --bind /proc /mnt/newSys/proc
> 5) mount --bind /proc /mnt/newSys/dev
> 7) chroot /mnt/newSys
> 8) update-initramfs -u -k all # no problems reported
> 9) grub-install /dev/sda # no problem reported

10) update-grub # To rewrite /boot/grub/grub.cfg with the new UUIDs
both for finding /boot and for linux's root=UUID= parameter.

You should also update /etc/fstab and likely other non grub related things.

>
> then I restarted machine and boot from hard drive - choose cloned sys to boot
> but it boots into (initramfs) and I do not know where is the problem?
> Is the procedure above incorrect?
> /dev/sda6 is an extended partition. is it the problem?

No.

-- 
Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net)