Hi All;
Tried to use parted to resize the / partition on my dev system , reducing
the size to 24Gb no warning or error but when I tried to reboot I got the
Kernel panic: init not found message. Boot up with a parted boot disk and
was told to run fschk, after several hours of not much happening ( system
unresponsive hd activity stoped) I ^C'd fschk there was messages that seemed
to indicate the FS still extended past the end of the partition.
What should my next step be.
I'm coping the fs over to another partition by:
cd /mnt/sysimage
rm -rF dev
find . | cpio -pvmd /mnt/hda4


any ideas?
thanks
Pat

Pat Ford wrote:

> Hi All;
> Tried to use parted to resize the / partition on my dev system , reducing
> the size to 24Gb no warning or error but when I tried to reboot I got the
> Kernel panic: init not found message. Boot up with a parted boot disk and
> was told to run fschk, after several hours of not much happening ( system
> unresponsive hd activity stoped) I ^C'd fschk there was messages that seemed
> to indicate the FS still extended past the end of the partition.
> What should my next step be.
> I'm coping the fs over to another partition by:
> cd /mnt/sysimage
> rm -rF dev
> find . | cpio -pvmd /mnt/hda4

You need to reset your MBR, since the files that it points to have moved
on the disk. If you have one, use your installation medium to get into
rescue mode, mount the original drive at a designated directory such as
"/mnt/sysimage", and do a "chroot /mnt/sysimage /bin/sh" to get a
working shell in your original location. That provides your boot-loader
tools, and access to things to provide labels on your partitions (if
your /etc/fstab uses them instead of the /dev/ filenames).

And as to your transfer technique: do not copy /proc, feel free to copy
/dev, and use "cp -a" instead of the cpio oddness.