My old LinHES hdd is getting old and I want to transfer it to a new drive on a newer motherboard. Both boards have the same chipsets, one is slightly newer with SATA1 onbaord (SiI chipset). Note: both boards are old, but again, use the same chipset if this matters. Old board: Asus A7N8X-VM and new board: Asus A7N8X Deluxe.

1) I used gparted to copy my functional LinHES partition from old HDD (IDE) to new HDD (SATA).
2) I manually created swap
3) I manually created a new /myth and copied over the old /myth
4) I adjusted the /etc/fstab (not using uuids but just /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, /dev/sda3)
5) I installed grub on the new HDD with a live Arch CD so it would work which it does

I can't boot the new drive. It displays the grub menu and tries to boot, but it can't find the root device '/dev/sda1' and drops me to a recovery shell.

I'm wondering if LinHES installed to an IDE system and manually xfered to a SATA system is missing the SATA hooks? Help

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Retired KM user (R4 - R6.04); friend to LH users.

I suspected that I had to re-run mkinitcpio to get the sata hooks in there, so I followed an Arch wiki page I used to install Arch from within a Live Ubuntu CD once in the past. See this article.

Basically, I booted into my live arch cd then did:



Then I rebooted and everything was great! Hope someone else finds this useful.

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I had the same problem after completely upgrading the hardware in my system (except the hard drives, of course) - this procedure worked like a charm!

Cool man, glad someone else found it useful. It has saved me several times now.

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Just want to say that this also worked for me when moving my PATA drive with R6.03 on it from an old system to a new one. I did use a PATA-to-SATA adapter on the drive to plug it into a SATA port on the motherboard, but I think these steps would have been necessary even if I plugged it into a PATA port on the motherboard.

Thanks graysky.

This looks like it will be very useful for my situation. I don't have an ARCH live CD -- can I do this by booting a LINHES live CD?

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Marc

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Yes the procedure will work with the linhes install cd.

Glad people are still getting some mileage on my random thoughts

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I can confirm that it worked like a champ for me. I've been looking for a way to do this for years -- thanks for publishing this!

Marc

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Marc

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Just wondering if you could use Clonezilla to copy to a new HDD. Has anyone tried it, or know if it would work?

http://clonezilla.org/

@ryan - to move the data you can probably use it but you will still have to rebuilt your kernel if the hardware is different. In my opinion, manually partitioning and formatting + rsync is the safest way to go.

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Ryan, Graysky is spot on. Cloning will work if the hardware is similar enough, but I had never been successful doing cloning, copying or anything else until I follow Graysky;'s instructions when I was moving from a machine with the root partition connected via IDE to a a machine with the root partition connected via SATA.

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Marc

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