Cloned F14 disk won't boot-what did I do wrong?

[toddbailey]

Hi All

trying to make a clone of my F14 install onto a flash drive.

Here is what I did

Install F14 beta on 12gb hard drive, applied updates and installed KDE-PartitionManager.

install flash drive and deleted ntfs data partition (entire disk)

Using KDE partitionmanager;

Copied and resized Boot to 1 gb, applied changes, copied swap, applied changes, copied / and resized to use all of the remaining space and applied changes.

shutdown machine and tried to boot using USB flash drive.

nothing happens, read section on grub and how to reload it

basically root (hd0,0) & setup hd0

commented hiddenmenu entry and set timeout to 5 in grub.conf

Now I see a boot sequence but machine reboots promptly after making OS selection.

So what did I do wrong or fail to do?

Reason for asking, in addition to migrate to larger f14 disk... I need to clone a server 2008 system disk as well.


thanks

[AdamW]

probably need more data, this kind of thing can be tricky. Especially it'd help to see /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst from the installed system.

[elgreen]

An immediate reboot is generally a grub thing where it can't find one of its stages, so make sure you read the grub documentation carefully. Also make sure that the first partition is marked 'active' in the partition table, sometimes your system BIOS will trigger an immediate reboot if it can't find an 'active' partition on any hard drive in the system.

Oops, I see you made it into the grub boot menu. How far past did you make it? Did you start seeing kernel messages come up, or did it immediately reboot when you hit the ENTER on your desired menu item?

[glennzo]

Check the UUID of the cloned disk vs the UUID in the copied boot menu.